This book isn't for everyone. It's for the willing. The capable. The bold. If you're open to being challenged, if you want more from life than recycledcomfort and soft lies, you'll get a lot out of this. If you're honest enough to examine yourself, you'll gain clarity-and most definitely a few hard laughsalong the way.But if you're looking to be coddled, offended on purpose, or validated in your current situation? You'll hate it. Especially if you can't stomach blun...

Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the D...