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Coda: Law, History, and Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2021

Christopher Tomlins
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Abstract

In this Coda to the symposium on my book In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History, I address the relationship in the book between law, history, and theory. Writing history informed by theory has always been important to me, for historical research is at least as much an engagement in interpretation as an exercise in description.

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Review Symposium on Christopher Tomlins’s In the Matter of Nat Turner
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , August 2021 , pp. 917 - 921
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Bar Foundation

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