Black litigants in the antebellum American South : / / Kimberly M. Welch

• Autore: Welch Kimberly M.
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , [2018]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018; ©[2018]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs
• Disciplina: 305.896/073075; 305.896073075
• Soggetto topico: Actions and defenses - Mississippi; Actions and defenses - Louisiana; African Americans - Mississippi - Social conditions - 19th century; African Americans - Louisiana - Social conditions - 19th century; African Americans - Mississippi - History - To 1863; African Americans - Louisiana - History - To 1863
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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" --
• Titolo autorizzato: Black litigants in the antebellum American South
• ISBN: 979-88-908539-0-5; 1-4696-3645-X; 1-4696-3646-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806000503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.