TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wong,Edlie L.
TI  - Neither fugitive nor free: Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel 
SN  - 9780814795460
AV  - HT851 
U1  - 810.9/3552 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - University of South Alabama
KW  - gnd
KW  - Law in literature
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Law and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Slave narratives
KW  - Black people
KW  - Travel
KW  - Droit dans la littérature
KW  - Esclavage dans la littérature
KW  - Droit et littérature
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Mouvements antiesclavagistes
KW  - Littérature américaine
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Récits d'esclaves
KW  - Personnes noires
KW  - Voyages
KW  - Esclaves
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - African American
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Freiheit
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Reise
KW  - Sklaverei
KW  - esclavage
KW  - abolition
KW  - noir (race)
KW  - Etats-Unis
KW  - 18e s. (fin)
KW  - 19e s
KW  - rero
KW  - émancipation
KW  - esclave
KW  - voyage
KW  - abolitionnisme
KW  - récit de captivité
KW  - liberté
KW  - statut juridique
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - "Multi-User"
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - OldControl:muse9780814795460; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: traveling slaves and the geopolitics of freedom -- Emancipation after "the Laws of Englishmen" -- Choosing kin in antislavery literature and law -- Gender of freedom before Dred Scott -- Crime of color in the Negro Seaman Acts -- Conclusion: fictions of free travel; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - Studies lawsuits to gain freedom for slaves on the grounds of their having traveled to free territory, starting with Somerset v. Stewart (England, 1772), Commonwealth v. Aves (Massachusetts, 1836), Dred Scott v. Sanford, and cases brought questioning the legitimacy of Negro Seamen Acts in the antebellum coastal South. These lawsuits and accounts of them are compared to fugitive slave narratives to shed light on both. The differing impact of freedom obtained from such suits for men and women (women could claim that their children were free, once they were judged free) is examined
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