Prosecuting torture: The strategic ethics of slavery in pre-revolutionary saint-domingue (Haiti)

Law and History Review

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 985-1029

  Ghachem, Malick W ^a  

^a University of Maine School of Law   (United States)

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EID: 80555123786     PISSN: 07382480     EISSN: 19399022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0738248011000514     Document Type: Article

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