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Neither Fugitive nor Free : Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel / / Edlie L. Wong



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Autore: Wong Edlie L. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Neither Fugitive nor Free : Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel / / Edlie L. Wong Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
Disciplina: 810.93552
Soggetto topico: Law in literature
Slavery in literature
Law and literature - United States - History - 19th century
Slavery - Law and legislation - United States - History - 19th century
Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century
Slaves - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History - 19th century
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Slave narratives - History and criticism
Black people - Travel - History - 19th century
Slaves - Travel - History - 19th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: African
American
Free
Fugitive
Neither
Situated
confluence
criticism
feminism
freedom
genre
history
legal
literary
new
presents
studies
suit
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Author
Sommario/riassunto: Neither 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Neither Fugitive nor Free  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-9546-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910480970503321
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Serie: America and the long 19th century.