@article{1480367,
      recid = {1480367},
      author = {Wong, Edlie L., },
      title = {Neither Fugitive nor Free : Atlantic Slavery, Freedom  Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {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 formally, slave attendants or  others on their behalf had to bring suit in a court of  law.Edlie Wong critically recuperates these cases in an  effort to reexamine and redefine the legal construction of  freedom, will, and consent. This study places such  historically central anti-slavery figures as Frederick  Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison  alongside such lesser-known slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann  Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med, and Harriet Robinson  Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary criticism,  feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free  presents the freedom suit as a "new" genre to African  American and American literary studies.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480367},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814794555.001.0001},
}