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1 online resource |
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Studies in legal history |
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Studies in legal history
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Atlantic's Dangerous Undercurrents; 2 Containing a Moral Contagion, 1822-1829; 3 The Contagion Spreads, 1829-1833; 4 Confronting a Pandemic, 1834-1842; 5 "Foreign" Emissaries and Rights Discourse, 1842-1847; 6 Sacrificing Black Citizenship, 1848-1859; 7 Black Sailors, their Communities, and the Fight for Citizenship; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Court Cases; Newspapers |
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Published Government SourcesFederal Sources; State Sources; British Sources; Unpublished Government Documents; Unpublished Manuscript Sources; Published Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index |
| Summary |
"Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a "moral contagion" of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived in Southern ports in violation of the laws faced incarceration, corporal punishment, an incipient form of convict leasing, and even punitive enslavement. The sailors, their captains, abolitionists, and British diplomatic agents protested this treatment. They wrote letters, published tracts, cajoled elected officials, pleaded with Southern officials, and litigated in state and federal courts. By deploying a progressive and sweeping notion of national citizenship - one that guaranteed a number of rights against state regulation - they exposed the ambiguity and potential power of national citizenship as a legal category. Ultimately, the Fourteenth Amendment recognized the robust understanding of citizenship championed by antebellum free people of color, by people afflicted with "moral contagion.""-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2019) |
| Subject |
Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century
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Free Black people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Merchant mariners, Black -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Diplomatic relations
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140063
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| Subject |
Southern States
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108671095 |
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1108671098 |
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9781108695404 |
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110869540X |
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