Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel

by Edlie Wong

Book Overview

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series

Neither Fugitive nor Free 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. Once brought into a free...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814794556
• ISBN13: 9780814794555
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"