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Stephen Middleton. The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio. (Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest, number 4.) Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 363. Cloth $59.00, paper $26.95.

Stephen Middleton meticulously traces the creation, development, and opposition to Ohio's racial exclusion codes, from their inception in 1804 through their restriction in 1849 to their ultimate demise in 1884. Middleton's is the first monograph to explore the black codes in a state carved out of the Old Northwest Territory since Elmer Gertz's 1957 study of Illinois's black laws. He takes advantage of a wide array of sources and the secondary literature to craft a highly readable book.

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