Neither Fugitive Nor Free

Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, And The Legal Culture Of Travel

by Edlie L. Wong
language: english
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, July of 2009 ‧
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Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. This book draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism.

Neither Fugitive Nor Free

Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, And The Legal Culture Of Travel

by Edlie L. Wong

Property Description
ISBN: 9780814794555
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: July of 2009
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Format: Book
Collection: America And The Long 19th Century
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
EAN: 9780814794555

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