http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2867/john-wood Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:06:06 -0400 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:06:06 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1072/the-concept-of-property-and-ownership-in-the-antebellum-american-south-slaves-slaveholders-theft-conflict-and-the-law By John Wood - The role of personal property in our lives is one that to a very great extent we take for granted. We, in a crowded country such as the UK, all clearly understand that some things are ‘ours’, some things ‘others’ and some things ‘public’, most people in Western society have a fully developed conception of ownership and property from an early age. For slaves, condemned by law to be treated as property due to being the descendants of black Africans imported in the pre-revolutionary period,1 and their white masters, as those who owned other human beings as property... Thu, 01 Jan 2015 07:58 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1072/the-concept-of-property-and-ownership-in-the-antebellum-american-south-slaves-slaveholders-theft-conflict-and-the-law