05164nam 22010695 450 99657186400331620240516130415.00-8147-9546-310.18574/9780814795460(CKB)2670000000299552(EBL)866134(OCoLC)819603536(SSID)ssj0000607488(PQKBManifestationID)11370526(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607488(PQKBWorkID)10584781(PQKB)10417997(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326146(MiAaPQ)EBC866134(OCoLC)794701112(MdBmJHUP)muse10187(DE-B1597)547499(DE-B1597)9780814795460(OCoLC)1156822517(EXLCZ)99267000000029955220200723h20092009 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrNeither Fugitive nor Free Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel /Edlie L. Wong1st ed.New York, NY :New York University Press,[2009]©20091 online resource (348 p.)America and the Long 19th Century ;8Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-9456-4 0-8147-9455-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorNeither 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.America and the long 19th century.Law in literatureSlavery in literatureLaw and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centurySlaveryLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryEnslaved personsLegal status, laws, etcUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSlave narrativesHistory and criticismBlack peopleTravelHistory19th centuryEnslaved personsTravelHistory19th centuryAfrican.American.Free.Fugitive.Neither.Situated.confluence.criticism.feminism.freedom.genre.history.legal.literary.new.presents.studies.suit.Law in literature.Slavery in literature.Law and literatureHistorySlaveryLaw and legislationHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryEnslaved personsLegal status, laws, etc.HistoryAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Slave narrativesHistory and criticism.Black peopleTravelHistoryEnslaved personsTravelHistory810.93552Wong Edlie L.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1461865DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996571864003316Neither Fugitive nor Free3670700UNISA