John S. Henshaw’s 1846-1847 notes cover John Minor’s Junior Law course. Henshaw’s notebook is organized by date and title and blends lecture notes with textual references to theorists such as William Blackstone and Emer de Vattel. Henshaw references slavery throughout the notebook. His notes speak to various aspects of slavery, from the slave trade and corporeal punishment to general laws of enslavement in Virginia.
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