Neither fugitive nor free : Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel / Edlie L. Wong.
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TextSeries: America and the long 19th centuryPublication details: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- University of South Alabama
- 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
- Droit dans la littérature
- Esclavage dans la littérature
- Droit et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Récits d'esclaves -- Histoire et critique
- Personnes noires -- Voyages -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Esclaves -- Voyages -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American literature
- American literature -- African American authors
- Antislavery movements
- Law and literature
- Law in literature
- Slave narratives
- Slavery in literature
- Slavery -- Law and legislation
- Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc
- United States
- Freiheit
- Literatur
- Reise
- Sklaverei
- esclavage -- abolition -- noir (race) -- Etats-Unis -- 18e s. (fin) -- 19e s
- émancipation -- esclave -- voyage -- Etats-Unis -- 18e s. (fin) -- 19e s
- abolitionnisme -- esclave -- noir (race) -- récit de captivité -- Etats-Unis -- 18e s. (fin) -- 19e s
- esclave -- liberté -- noir (race) -- statut juridique -- Etats-Unis -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e s. (fin) -- 19e s
- 1800-1899
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- PS217.S55 W66 2009
- HT 1691
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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.
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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