Bøger af Raphael Semmes

The following account of the cruise of the two Confederate States steamers-Sumter and Alabama-is taken from the private journals and other papers of Captain Semmes.

It explores long-forgotten aspects of old English law, such as theftbote (an early form of "victim compensation"), deodand (an animal or article which, having caused the death of a human being, was forfeited to the Crown for "pious uses"), and the blood test for murderers.