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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:America and the long 19th century.
Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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505 0 0 |t Front matter --  |t Contents --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction --  |t 1 Emancipation after “the Laws of Englishmen” --  |t 2 Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law --  |t 3 The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott --  |t 4 The Crime of Color in the Negro Seamen Acts --  |t Conclusion --  |t Notes --  |t Index --  |t About the Author 
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