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Neither Fugitive nor Free – Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel: America and the Long 19th Century

Autor Edlie L. Wong
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2009
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, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. Once brought into a free jurisdiction, these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken back to a slave jurisdiction - at least according to abolitionists and the enslaved themselves. In order to secure their freedom formally, slave attendants or others on their behalf had to bring suit in a court of law.Edlie Wong critically reconsiders these cases in an effort to re-examine and redefine the legal construction of freedom, will, and consent. This study places such historically central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catherine Linda, Med, and Harriet Robinson Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary criticism, feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free presents the freedom suit as a “new” genre to African American and American literary studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814794562
ISBN-10: 0814794564
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 15 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MI – New York University
Seria America and the Long 19th Century


Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Traveling Slaves and the Geopolitics of Freedom; 1: Emancipation After “the laws of Englishmen”; 2: Choosing Kin in Anti-Slavery Literature and Law; 3: The Gender of Freedom Before Dred Scott; 4: The Crime of Color in the Negro Seamen Acts; Conclusion: Fictions of Free TravelNotes; Index; About the Author

Recenzii

"An original, powerful interdisciplinary approach to the political and legal struggles against slavery in the antebellum period. Wong’s transatlantic focus on the travel of enslaved persons, as fugitives or nominally free, goes far beyond well known slave narratives and gets to the heart of the contradictions of slavery in a liberal republic." Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture

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Situated at the confluence of literary criticism, feminism, and legal history, presents the freedom suit as a “new” genre to African-American and American literary studies