LEADER 05140nam 22010695 450 001 9910480970503321 005 20220205013009.0 010 $a0-8147-9546-3 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814795460 035 $a(CKB)2670000000299552 035 $a(EBL)866134 035 $a(OCoLC)819603536 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607488 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11370526 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607488 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584781 035 $a(PQKB)10417997 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326146 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866134 035 $a(OCoLC)794701112 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10187 035 $a(DE-B1597)547499 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814795460 035 $a(OCoLC)1156822517 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000299552 100 $a20200723h20092009 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNeither Fugitive nor Free $eAtlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel /$fEdlie L. Wong 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2009] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 225 0 $aAmerica and the Long 19th Century ;$v8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-9456-4 311 0 $a0-8147-9455-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 Emancipation after ?the Laws of Englishmen? --$t2 Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law --$t3 The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott --$t4 The Crime of Color in the Negro Seamen Acts --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aNeither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. Once brought into a free jurisdiction, these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken back to a slave jurisdiction?at least according to abolitionists and the enslaved themselves. In order to secure their freedom formally, slave attendants or others on their behalf had to bring suit in a court of law. Edlie Wong critically recuperates these cases in an effort to reexamine and redefine the legal construction of freedom, will, and consent. This study places such historically central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med, and Harriet Robinson Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary criticism, feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free presents the freedom suit as a "new" genre to African American and American literary studies. 410 0$aAmerica and the long 19th century. 606 $aLaw in literature 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aLaw and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlaves$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSlave narratives$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBlack people$xTravel$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlaves$xTravel$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAfrican. 610 $aAmerican. 610 $aFree. 610 $aFugitive. 610 $aNeither. 610 $aSituated. 610 $aconfluence. 610 $acriticism. 610 $afeminism. 610 $afreedom. 610 $agenre. 610 $ahistory. 610 $alegal. 610 $aliterary. 610 $anew. 610 $apresents. 610 $astudies. 610 $asuit. 615 0$aLaw in literature. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$xHistory 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aSlaves$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSlave narratives$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBlack people$xTravel$xHistory 615 0$aSlaves$xTravel$xHistory 676 $a810.93552 700 $aWong$b Edlie L.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01047889 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480970503321 996 $aNeither Fugitive nor Free$92475789 997 $aUNINA