Chapter 2 Elements of a Crime - Oxford University Press

The term “double character” comes from writings by proslavery legal theorist Thomas R. R. Cobb (1823-62) who argued, “In the Roman law, a slave was a mere chattel (res). He was not recognized as a person. But the Negro slave in America, protected…by municipal law, occupies a double character of person and property” (83). ................
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