{"product_id":"neither-fugitive-nor-free-atlantic-slavery-freedom-suits-and-the-legal-culture-of-travel-9780814794562","title":"Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart of the American Literatures Initiative Series \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeither 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 jurisdiction, these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken back to a slave jurisdiction--at least according to abolitionists and the enslaved themselves. In order to secure their freedom formally, slave attendants or others on their behalf had to bring suit in a court of law. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdlie Wong critically recuperates these cases in an effort to reexamine and redefine the legal construction of freedom, will, and consent. This study places such historically central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med, and Harriet Robinson Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary criticism, feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free presents the freedom suit as a new genre to African American and American literary studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edlie L. Wong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814794562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWong, Edlie L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eEdlie L. Wong\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland and author of Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (NYU Press, 2009) and co-editor of George Lippard's The Killers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40183709171827,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d8f0936b-1abe-47e2-a25f-b6723455d315.jpg?v=1655558515","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/neither-fugitive-nor-free-atlantic-slavery-freedom-suits-and-the-legal-culture-of-travel-9780814794562","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}