Neither Fugitive nor Free Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel |
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| Author:
| Wong, Edlie L. |
| Series title: | America and the Long 19th Century Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8147-9456-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Publisher: | New York University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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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 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. This book 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.