TY - BOOK AU - Phan,Hoang Gia ED - Project Muse. TI - Bonds of citizenship: law and the labors of emancipation T2 - America and the long 19th century SN - 9780814738931 AV - KF482 .P48 2013 U1 - 342.7308/7 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Master and servant in literature KW - Citizenship in literature KW - Slavery in literature KW - Social structure KW - United States KW - History KW - Indentured servants KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Slavery KW - Citizenship KW - Philosophy KW - Slaves KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814738931/ ER -