Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform

by Clayton E. Cramer

Cramer's work examines the motivations and legislative history behind the nation's first laws regulating the carrying of concealed deadly weapons and establishes a previously unexplored link between these laws and efforts to suppress dueling in the southern back country. Earlier attempts to analyze these laws focused upon efforts to maintain slavery by severely restricting the rights of free blacks: if free blacks could not possess arms and lacked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275966151
• ISBN13: 9780275966157
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"