LEADER 03092oam 22006254a 450 001 9910806000503321 005 20250905110040.0 010 $a979-88-908539-0-5 010 $a1-4696-3645-X 010 $a1-4696-3646-8 035 $a(CKB)3790000000543679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5211781 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001875563 035 $a(OCoLC)1017758110 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66210 035 $a(ODN)ODN0003562634 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000543679 100 $a20170605d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlack litigants in the antebellum American South$e/$fKimberly M. Welch 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cThe University of North Carolina Press,$d[2018] 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2018 210 4$dİ[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (323 pages) $cillustrations, maps, photographs 225 0 $aThe John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 08$a1-4696-3643-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"This work explores free and enslaved African Americans' involvement in a broad range of civil actions in the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana between 1800 and 1860. Though the antebellum southern courts have long been understood as institutions supporting the class interests and the racial ideologies of the planter and merchant elite, Kimberly Welch shows how black litigants found ways to advocate for themselves even within a racist system. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular. Because private property and slavery were fundamentally linked in the minds of slave owners, the term 'property' contained a group of metaphors that underwrote a set of white, male claims about autonomy, membership, citizenship, and personhood" --$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. 606 $aActions and defenses$zMississippi 606 $aActions and defenses$zLouisiana 606 $aAfrican Americans$zMississippi$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zLouisiana$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zMississippi$xHistory$yTo 1863 606 $aAfrican Americans$zLouisiana$xHistory$yTo 1863 615 0$aActions and defenses 615 0$aActions and defenses 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 676 $a305.896/073075 676 $a305.896073075 700 $aWelch$b Kimberly M.$01592150 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806000503321 996 $aBlack litigants in the antebellum American South$93908246 997 $aUNINA