1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455856403321

Titolo

The battle for Congress [[electronic resource] ] : consultants, candidates, and voters / / James Thurber, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8157-9898-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThurberJames A. <1943->

Disciplina

324.973/0929

Soggetti

Political campaigns - United States

Political consultants - United States

Campaign management - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication Page; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: One Year and Four Elections: The 1998 Capps Campaign for California's Twenty-Second District; Chapter Three: Johnson versus Koskoff: The 1998 Campaign for Connecticut's Sixth District; Chapter Four: High Turnout in a Low-Turnout Year: Georgia's Second District; Chapter Five: Kansas's Third District: The ""Pros from Dover"" Set Up Shop; Chapter Six: Brian Baird's ""Ring of Fire"": The Quest for Funds and Votes in Washington's Third  District

Chapter Seven: Wisconsin's Second District: History in the MakingAppendix; Contributors; Index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825798803321

Autore

Wong Edlie L.

Titolo

Neither Fugitive nor Free : Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel / / Edlie L. Wong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

9780814795460

0814795463

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

America and the Long 19th Century ; ; 8

Disciplina

810.93552

Soggetti

Law in literature

Slavery in literature

Law and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Slavery - Law and legislation - United States - History - 19th century

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History - 19th century

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Slave narratives - History and criticism

Black people - Travel - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Travel - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 recuperates these cases in an effort to reexamine 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, Catharine 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.