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,...
Saved in:
| VerfasserIn: | |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- 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