TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phan,Hoang Gia
TI  - Bonds of citizenship: law and the labors of emancipation 
T2  - America and the long 19th century
SN  - 9780814738931
AV  - KF482 
U1  - 342.7308/7 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Indentured servants
KW  - Social structure
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Citizenship in literature
KW  - Master and servant in literature
KW  - Esclavage
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Structure sociale
KW  - Esclavage dans la littérature
KW  - LAW
KW  - Constitutional
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Slaves
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-247) and index; Introduction : "A man from another country" : citizenship and the bonds of labor -- Bound by law : apprenticeship and the culture of "free" labor -- Civic virtues : narrative form and the trial of character in early America -- Fugitive bonds : contract and the culture of constitutionalism -- Hereditary bondsman : Frederick Douglass and the spirit of the law -- "If man will strike" : Moby-Dick and the letter of the law -- Conclusion : the labors of emancipation : founded law and freedom defined
N2  - The author argues that in the age of Emancipation the cultural attributes of free personhood became identified with the legal rights and privileges of the citizen, and that individual freedom thus became identified with the nation-state. He situates the emergence of American citizenship and the American novel within the context of Atlantic slavery and Anglo-American legal culture, placing early American texts by Hector St. John de Crévecœur, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Brockden Brown alongside Black Atlantic texts by Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano. Beginning with a revisionary reading of the Constitution's "slavery clauses," the author recovers indentured servitude as a transitional form of labor bondage that helped define the key terms of modern U.S. citizenship: mobility, volition, and contract. This book demonstrates how citizenship and civic culture were transformed by antebellum debates over slavery, free labor, and national Union, while analyzing the writings of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville alongside a wide-ranging archive of lesser-known antebellum legal and literary texts in the context of changing conceptions of constitutionalism, property, and contract. Situated at the nexus of literary criticism, legal studies, and labor history, this book challenges the founding fiction of a pro-slavery Constitution central to American letters and legal culture. -- Publisher's website
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