Keywords:
Slave narratives - History and criticism
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Slaves ; Travel ; History ; 19th century
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Blacks ; Travel ; History ; 19th century
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Slave narratives ; History and criticism
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American literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism
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American literature ; African American authors ; History and criticism
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Slaves ; Legal status, laws, etc ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Antislavery movements ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Slavery ; Law and legislation ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Law and literature ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Slavery in literature
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Law in literature
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
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 formal
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (348 p)
ISBN:
9780814794555
Series Statement:
America and the Long 19th Century
URL:
http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=866134
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=866134
DDC:
810.9
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Traveling Slaves and the Geopolitics of Freedom; 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: Fictions of Free Travel; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author;
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