Neither Fugitive nor Free : : Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel / / Edlie L. Wong.
Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets,...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Emancipation after “the Laws of Englishmen” -- 2 Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law -- 3 The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott -- 4 The Crime of Color in the Negro Seamen Acts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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