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New York : New York University Press, [2009]

1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, map

ISBN 9780814795460 (e-book)

ISBN 0814794556 (cl : alk. paper)

ISBN 0814794564 (pb : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780814794555 (cl : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780814794562 (pb : alk. paper)

America and the long 19th century

Print version: Wong, Edlie L. Neither fugitive nor free : Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel. New York : New York University Press, [2009] viii, 337 pages ; 24 cm America and the long 19th century ISBN 9780814794555

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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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