Neither fugitive nor free : Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel / Edlie L. Wong.
Wong, Edlie L., author.
2009
PS217.S55 W66 2009
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Title Neither fugitive nor free : Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel / Edlie L. Wong.
Author Wong, Edlie L., author.
ISBN 9780814794555 (cl : alk. paper)
0814794556 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814794562 (pb : alk. paper)
0814794564 (pb : alk. paper)
9780814795460 (e-book)
Published New York : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Description 1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, map.
Call Number PS217.S55 W66 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.93552
Summary 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 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series America and the long 19th century.
Available in Other Form Neither fugitive nor free : Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel.
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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.

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