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The Fugitive's Properties

Author : Stephen M. Best
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226241114
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Fugitive's Properties written by Stephen M. Best and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.

The War Before the War

Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224137
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The War Before the War written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Selection Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award A New York Times Critics' Best Book "Excellent... stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates This book tells the story of America’s original sin—slavery—through politics, law, literature, and above all, through the eyes of enslavedblack people who risked their lives to flee from bondage, thereby forcing the nation to confront the truth about itself. The struggle over slavery divided not only the American nation but also the hearts and minds of individual citizens faced with the timeless problem of when to submit to unjust laws and when to resist. The War Before the War illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.

Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves

Author : Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640937
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves written by Sharada Balachandran Orihuela and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of nautical pirates and robbery in international waters to postrevolutionary counterfeiting, transnational slave escape, and the illegal trade of cotton across the Americas during the Civil War. Weaving together close readings of American, Chicano, and African American literature with political theory, the author shows that piracy, when represented through literature, has imagined more inclusive and democratic communities than were then possible in reality. The author shows that these subjects are not taking part in unlawful acts only for economic gain. Rather, Balachandran Orihuela argues that piracy might, surprisingly, have served as a public good, representing a form of transnational belonging that transcends membership in any one nation-state while also functioning as a surrogate to citizenship through the ownership of property. These transnational and transactional forms of social and economic life allow for a better understanding of the foundational importance of property ownership and its role in the creation of citizenship.

The Innkeeper and the Fugitive

Author : Martha Keyes
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Innkeeper and the Fugitive written by Martha Keyes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After nearly ten years in the army, Hamish Campbell is ready to settle in and call a place home. His sights are set on Dalmore House, the Campbell family estate seized by the Crown after the ‘45 uprising. To have any chance at all of regaining it, Hamish must not only find the money to pay off the estate’s debts but persuade the man who has charge of it to relinquish the property into the hands of a Jacobite’s son. With the help of his brother-in-arms, Hamish finds employment at an inn near to Dalmore’s overseer, putting him in an ideal location to seek the man’s favor. Ava MacMorran cannot marry Angus MacKinnon. Any fate would be preferable. Escaping her father’s threats of force, Ava sets out for the home of the childhood friend she knows will help her--perhaps even marry her. But when the merchant meant to take her there is nowhere to be found and Ava is mistaken for a long-awaited inn servant, she determines to go along with the misconception until she can be rescued by her friend. With Ava ignorant of Hamish’s goals and Hamish unaware that he is harboring the fugitive daughter of the lynchpin of his plan, attachment between them deepens and the threat of discovery looms large, making a satisfactory outcome seem all but impossible.

No Property in Man

Author : Sean Wilentz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674916050
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book No Property in Man written by Sean Wilentz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution limited slavery’s legitimacy—a limitation which in time inspired the antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244385
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by : Eric Foner

Download or read book Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad written by Eric Foner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.

The Captive's Quest for Freedom

Author : R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418716
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Captive's Quest for Freedom written by R. J. M. Blackett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

Social and Economic Aspects of Slavery in the Transmontane Prior to 1850

Author : Charles Embury Hedrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Social and Economic Aspects of Slavery in the Transmontane Prior to 1850 written by Charles Embury Hedrick and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Bibliography and Critique of the Spanish Translations from the Poetry of the United States

Author : Paul Thomas Manchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis A Bibliography and Critique of the Spanish Translations from the Poetry of the United States by : Paul Thomas Manchester

Download or read book A Bibliography and Critique of the Spanish Translations from the Poetry of the United States written by Paul Thomas Manchester and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Reforms of Peter the Great

Author :
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765630872
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Reforms of Peter the Great written by and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to provide an exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life of Russia's 18th century tsar/reformer and the theme of progress through violence in Russia.

John and Mary

Author : Ellwood Griest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John and Mary written by Ellwood Griest and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fugitive Slave Law and It's Victims (Illustrated)

Author : American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3730989669
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Fugitive Slave Law and It's Victims (Illustrated) written by American Anti-Slavery Society and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted by Congress in September, 1850, received the signature of HOWELL COBB, [of Georgia,] as Speaker of the House of Representatives, of WILLIAM R. KING, [of Alabama,] as President of the Senate, and was "approved," September 18th, of that year, by MILLARD FILLMORE, Acting President of the United States. The authorship of the Bill is generally ascribed to James M. Mason, Senator from Virginia. Before proceeding to the principal object of this tract, it is proper to give a synopsis of the Act itself, which was well called, by the New York Evening Post, "An Act for the Encouragement of Kidnapping." It is in ten sections.

Shadrach Minkins

Author : Gary Collison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029798
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Shadrach Minkins written by Gary Collison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate Black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a remarkable effort of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison has recovered the true story of Shadrach Minkins’ life and times and perilous flight. His book restores an extraordinary chapter to our collective history and at the same time offers a rare and engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary Black man in nineteenth-century North America. As Minkins’ journey from slavery to freedom unfolds, we see what day-to-day life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, for a fugitive in Boston, and for a free Black man in Montreal. Collison recreates the drama of Minkins’s arrest and his subsequent rescue by a band of Black Bostonians, who spirited the fugitive to freedom in Canada. He shows us Boston’s Black community, moved to panic and action by the Fugitive Slave Law, and the previously unknown community established in Montreal by Minkins and other refugee Blacks from the United States. And behind the scenes, orchestrating events from the disastrous Compromise of 1850 through the arrest of Minkins and the trial of his rescuers, is Daniel Webster, who through the exigencies of his dimming political career, took the role of villain. Webster is just one of the familiar figures in this tale of an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. Others, such as Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe (who made use of Minkins’s Montreal community in Uncle Tom’s Cabin), also appear throughout the narrative. Minkins’ intriguing story stands as a fascinating commentary on the nation’s troubled times—on urban slavery and Boston abolitionism, on the Underground Railroad, and on one of the federal government’s last desperate attempts to hold the Union together.

The Constitutional Provision Respecting Fugitives from Service Or Labor

Author : Thomas Hammond Talbot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional Provision Respecting Fugitives from Service Or Labor written by Thomas Hammond Talbot and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parliamentary Papers

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Property in Man

Author : Sean Wilentz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674244109
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book No Property in Man written by Sean Wilentz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution limited slavery’s legitimacy—a limitation which in time inspired the antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.