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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:America and the Long 19th Century ; 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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