03092oam 22006254a 450 991080600050332120250905110040.0979-88-908539-0-51-4696-3645-X1-4696-3646-8(CKB)3790000000543679(MiAaPQ)EBC5211781(StDuBDS)EDZ0001875563(OCoLC)1017758110(MdBmJHUP)muse66210(ODN)ODN0003562634(EXLCZ)99379000000054367920170605d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBlack litigants in the antebellum American South/Kimberly M. WelchChapel Hill :The University of North Carolina Press,[2018]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2018©[2018]1 online resource (323 pages) illustrations, maps, photographsThe John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePreviously issued in print: 2018.1-4696-3643-3 Includes bibliographical references and index."This work explores free and enslaved African Americans' involvement in a broad range of civil actions in the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana between 1800 and 1860. Though the antebellum southern courts have long been understood as institutions supporting the class interests and the racial ideologies of the planter and merchant elite, Kimberly Welch shows how black litigants found ways to advocate for themselves even within a racist system. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular. Because private property and slavery were fundamentally linked in the minds of slave owners, the term 'property' contained a group of metaphors that underwrote a set of white, male claims about autonomy, membership, citizenship, and personhood" --Provided by publisher.John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.Actions and defensesMississippiActions and defensesLouisianaAfrican AmericansMississippiSocial conditions19th centuryAfrican AmericansLouisianaSocial conditions19th centuryAfrican AmericansMississippiHistoryTo 1863African AmericansLouisianaHistoryTo 1863Actions and defensesActions and defensesAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansHistoryAfrican AmericansHistory305.896/073075305.896073075Welch Kimberly M.1592150MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910806000503321Black litigants in the antebellum American South3908246UNINA