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This review essay considers Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross’s Becoming Free, Becoming Black (2020); Laura F. Edwards’s The People and Their Peace (2009); Ariela J. Gross’s Double Character ([2000] 2006); Martha S. Jones’s Birthright Citizens (2018); Kelly M. Kennington’s In the Shadow of Dred Scott (2017); and Kimberly M. Welch’s Black Litigants in the Antebellum South (2018), arguing that one important implication of these works is that the roots of post-Reconstruction Black legal culture can be found during the antebellum period. The essay synthesizes the insights of these works regarding legal culture, legal consciousness, vernacular legal education, and legal networking. It concludes that, for students of Black legal culture and litigation for and by Black people beyond Reconstruction (that is, Jim Crow), examining the historiography of antebellum litigation for and by Black people is an important starting point in advanced discussions about Black legal culture.
这篇评论文章考虑了亚历杭德罗·德拉富恩特和阿雷拉·j·格罗斯的《成为自由，成为黑人》(2020);劳拉·f·爱德华兹的《人民与和平》(2009);Ariela J. Gross的双重角色([2000]2006);《玛莎·琼斯的出生公民权》(2018);凯利·m·肯宁顿的《在德雷德·斯科特的阴影下》(2017);以及金伯利·m·韦尔奇(Kimberly M. Welch)的《南方战前的黑人诉讼人》(2018)，认为这些作品的一个重要含义是，重建后的黑人法律文化的根源可以在战前时期找到。本文综合了这些著作在法律文化、法律意识、乡土法律教育和法律网络等方面的见解。它的结论是，对于黑人法律文化和黑人在重建时期(即吉姆·克劳)之后的诉讼的学生来说，研究战前黑人诉讼和黑人诉讼的历史编纂是深入讨论黑人法律文化的一个重要起点。
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