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Bonds of citizenship [electronic resource] : law and the labors of emancipation / Hoang Gia Phan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: America and the long 19th centuryPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 256 p. )ISBN:
  • 9780814738931
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 342.7308/7 23
LOC classification:
  • KF482 .P48 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

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