The Fugitive's Properties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fugitive's Properties write by Stephen M. Best. This book was released on 2010-05-15. The Fugitive's Properties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The War Before the War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War Before the War write by Andrew Delbanco. This book was released on 2019-11-05. The War Before the War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves write by Sharada Balachandran Orihuela. This book was released on 2018-04-09. Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Captive's Quest for Freedom
The Captive's Quest for Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Captive's Quest for Freedom write by R. J. M. Blackett. This book was released on 2018-01-25. The Captive's Quest for Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.
Property
Property - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Property write by Valerie Martin. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing—so prised and clean limbed—is a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved). Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress. Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, Property unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.
