Neither fugitive nor free : Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of 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 (Massachussetts, 1836), Dred Scott v. Sanford, and cases brought questioning the legitimacy of Negro Seamen Acts in the anteb...
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Formáid: | Leictreonach Ríomhleabhar |
Teanga: | Béarla |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2009]
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Sraith: | America and the long 19th century.
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Rochtain ar líne: | Click to View |
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Clár na nÁbhar:
- 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.