LEADER 05291nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910463573803321 005 20211005025511.0 010 $a1-283-89890-X 010 $a0-8122-0633-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206333 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065375 035 $a(OCoLC)822017755 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642760 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704096 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11483084 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704096 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10692207 035 $a(PQKB)10406552 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442008 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17515 035 $a(DE-B1597)449593 035 $a(OCoLC)979684790 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206333 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442008 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642760 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421140 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065375 100 $a20120223d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the shadow of the gallows$b[electronic resource] $erace, crime, and American civic identity /$fJeannine Marie DeLombard 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (457 p.) 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-2317-9 311 0 $a0-8122-4422-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[381]-431)and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man --$tPart I --$tChapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact --$tChapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self --$tPart II --$tChapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics --$tChapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America --$tChapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship --$tChapter 6. Who Ain't a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFrom Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect," it overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders-even slaves-appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood. Before there was the slave narrative, there was the criminal confession. Placing the black condemned at the forefront of the African American canon allows us to see how a later generation of enslaved activists-most notably, Frederick Douglass-could marshal the public presence and civic authority necessary to fashion themselves as eligible citizens. At the same time, in an era when abolitionists were charging Americans with the national crime of "manstealing," a racialized sense of culpability became equally central to white civic identity. What, for African Americans, is the legacy of a citizenship grounded in culpable personhood? For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt? In the Shadow of the Gallows reads classics by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, George Lippard, and Edward Everett Hale alongside execution sermons, criminal confessions, trial transcripts, philosophical treatises, and political polemics to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging. 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory 606 $aCrime and race$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCitizenship$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory. 615 0$aCrime and race$xHistory. 615 0$aCitizenship 676 $a810.9/896073 700 $aDeLombard$b Jeannine Marie$01028620 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463573803321 996 $aIn the shadow of the gallows$92460293 997 $aUNINA