Further to my project of talking about James Whitman's terrific book and the Nazi lawyers' image of the Southern United States, here is Heinrich Krieger's book on the Race Laws of the United States. To make the files manageable, I have broken this into four parts. Here is the front matter through page 101. Here are Krieger pages 102-99. Here are Krieger pages 200-307. Here are Krieger pages 308 through the back matter.
The fourth section has the bibliography, which I find most interesting because so much of it is work that argues against slavery (or Jim Crow). For instance, this note in the Columbia Law Review, which Krieger cites, argues for a limitation of race discrimination. Interestingly, it also has a metaphor I had not heard before -- that of the vapors of the fourteenth amendment (a sort of penumbra for smell)!
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