Právněhistorické studie / Legal History Studies (Charles University journal; below referred to as PHS or Journal) is a scientific journal listed in the international prestigious database SCOPUS. The journal is published by Charles University in Prague under the guarantee of the Department of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University. It is published by the Karolinum Press. The journal focuses on the field of legal history and related topics.
Issue 1 of the Journal was published by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Publishing in June 1955. The Journal was initially published by the Cabinet of Legal History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science (CSAV), later by the Institute of State and Law (CSAV) and then by the Institute of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University.
PHS is issued three times a year in April, August, and December and it presents original scientific works/papers as well as reviews, annotations and news from the scientific field of legal history. It also introduces annotated texts of a legal history nature. PHS accepts manuscripts from domestic as well as foreign authors. Manuscripts submitted by foreign authors are published in original language, namely in English, Slovak, German, French, Italian or Polish.
PHS (ISSN 0079-4929) is registered in the Czech national ISSN centre (supervised by the State Technical Library). The Journal is registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic according to Act No. 46/2000 Sb., on Rights and Liabilities for the Publishing of Periodicals and Change of Some Acts (Press Act), and it is allocated with registration number of periodical press MK E 18813.
PHS is an open journal and ensures open access to scientific data (Open Access). The entire content is released as open to the public on the web pages of the journal.
The journal is archived in Portico.
PRÁVNĚHISTORICKÉ STUDIE, Vol 46 No 1 (2016), 60–72
Neblahá instituce otroctví – k 150. výročí zrušení otroctví ve Spojených státech amerických
[The Woeful Institution of Slavery – towards 150th Anniversary of Abolition of Slavery in the United States of America]
Radim Seltenreich
published online: 18. 11. 2016
abstract
The author deals in his article with the question of the origin of slavery in the colonial North America whereas in the centre of his attention is mainly the legal anchorage of this woeful institution. He points mainly to the closure of slavery with the white indentured servitude towards which is slavery particularly defined. Further he notices as well the attitudes of the important thinkers of the anglo-american aerea towards this question which in this manner inevitably concerns also the relation of the natural law and slavery. He points to that although this institution was sentenced from the side of the natural law she was also fully accepted as the part of the colonial legal system. This doesn’t change in the time of the revolution and the rise of the American statehood which despite of the own founding ideal of the equality of all people tolerates further slavery. On the federal level the legal regulation avoids this problems whereas in the northern states of the Union is slavery gradually abolished while in the southern states is for the reasons of the economic importance indispensable. The article finishes then with the factual legal regulation of slavery in the American South which includes as well the attitudes of the local courts towards the application of this law.
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