Neither fugitive nor free : : Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel / / Edlie L. Wong.
Studies lawsuits to gain freedom for slaves on the grounds of their having traveled to free territory, starting with Somerset v. Stewart (England, 1772), Commonwealth v. Aves (Massachussetts, 1836), Dred Scott v. Sanford, and cases brought questioning the legitimacy of Negro Seamen Acts in the anteb...
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| Superior document: | America and the long 19th century |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : New York University Press,, [2009] 2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America and the long 19th century.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 pages) :; illustrations, map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: traveling slaves and the geopolitics of freedom
- Emancipation after "the Laws of Englishmen"
- Choosing kin in antislavery literature and law
- Gender of freedom before Dred Scott
- Crime of color in the Negro Seaman Acts
- Conclusion: fictions of free travel.