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  1. Neither Fugitive nor Free
    Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
    Published: [2009]; © 2009
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    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... more

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    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

     

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    Series: America and the Long 19th Century ; 8
    Subjects: African; American; Free; Fugitive; Neither; Situated; confluence; criticism; feminism; freedom; genre; history; legal; literary; new; presents; studies; suit; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American; American literature; American literature; American literature; Antislavery movements; Antislavery movements; Blacks; Blacks; Law and literature; Law and literature; Law in literature; Slave narratives; Slavery in literature; Slavery; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves; Slaves; Slaves
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  2. Neither Fugitive nor Free
    Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
    Published: [2009]
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    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... more

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    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.

     

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    Series: America and the Long 19th Century ; 8
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, 15 black and white illustrations
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  3. Neither fugitive nor free
    Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    This study 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. more

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    This study 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.

     

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    Series: America and the long 19th century
    Subjects: Literatur; Sklaverei <Motiv>; Freiheit <Motiv>; Reise <Motiv>; Slaves; Blacks; Slave narratives; American literature; American literature; Slaves; Antislavery movements; Slavery; Law and literature; Slavery in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource., Illustrations (black and white).
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  4. Neither Fugitive nor Free
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York ; OAPEN FOUNDATION, The Hague

    Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series 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... more

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    Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series 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.

     

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  5. Neither Fugitive nor Free
    Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
    Published: [2009]; © 2009
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    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... more

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    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

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780814795460
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    Series: America and the Long 19th Century ; 8
    Subjects: African; American; Free; Fugitive; Neither; Situated; confluence; criticism; feminism; freedom; genre; history; legal; literary; new; presents; studies; suit; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American; American literature; American literature; American literature; Antislavery movements; Antislavery movements; Blacks; Blacks; Law and literature; Law and literature; Law in literature; Slave narratives; Slavery in literature; Slavery; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves; Slaves; Slaves
    Scope: 1 online resource, 15 black and white illustrations
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  6. Neither Fugitive nor Free
    Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
    Published: [2009]
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Emancipation after “the Laws of Englishmen” -- 2 Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law -- 3 The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott -- 4 The Crime of Color in the Negro Seamen... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Emancipation after “the Laws of Englishmen” -- 2 Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law -- 3 The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott -- 4 The Crime of Color in the Negro Seamen Acts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author 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

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780814795460
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    Series: America and the Long 19th Century ; 8
    Subjects: Slavery in literature; Slavery; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves; Slaves; Slaves; Antislavery movements; Blacks; Antislavery movements; Law and literature; Law in literature; Slave narratives; American literature; American literature; American literature; Law and literature; Blacks; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, 15 black and white illustrations
  7. Neither fugitive nor free
    Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel
    Published: [2009]; 2009
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York

    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... more

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

     

    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

     

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    ISBN: 9780814795460
    RVK Categories: HT 1691
    Series: America and the long 19th century
    Subjects: Slaves; Blacks; Slave narratives; American literature; American literature; Slaves; Antislavery movements; Slavery; Law and literature; Slavery in literature; Law in literature; Reise; Freiheit; Sklaverei; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (348 pages), illustrations, map
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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

  8. Neither fugitive nor free
    Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel
    Published: [2009]; © 2009
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York ; London

    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... more

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    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

     

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  9. Neither fugitive nor free
    Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York

    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... more

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    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

     

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    ISBN: 9780814795460; 0814795463
    Subjects: Law in literature; Slavery in literature; Law and literature; Slavery; Antislavery movements; Slaves; American literature; American literature; Slave narratives; Blacks; Slaves; American literature; American literature; Antislavery movements; Blacks; Law and literature; Law in literature; Slave narratives; Slavery; Slavery in literature; Slaves; Slaves
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  10. Neither fugitive nor free
    Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel
    Published: [2009]; © 2009
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York ; London

    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... more

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    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

     

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