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D971.227/1 版次： |
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D971.227 版次： |
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著者:
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Schoeppner, Michael A. |
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Moral contagion : [ black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America /] / , |
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出版地： Cambridge, United Kingdom ; 出版社： Cambridge University Press, 出版日期： 2019. |
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载体形态:
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xiii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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附注:
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Florida, 2010) issued under title: Navigating the dangerous Atlantic : black sailors, racial quarantines, and U.S. constitutionalism. |
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内容提要:
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"Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a "moral contagion" of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived in Southern ports in violation of the laws faced incarceration, corporal punishment, an incipient form of convict leasing, and even punitive enslavement. The sailors, their captains, abolitionists, and British diplomatic agents protested this treatment. They wrote letters, published tracts, cajoled elected officials, pleaded with Southern officials, and litigated in state and federal courts. By deploying a progressive and sweeping notion of national citizenship - one that guaranteed a number of rights against state regulation - they exposed the ambiguity and potential power of national citizenship as a legal category. Ultimately, the Fourteenth Amendment recognized the robust understanding of citizenship championed by antebellum free people of color, by people afflicted with "moral contagion"-- |
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主题词:
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Free African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. 19th century. |
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主题词:
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Free blacks Legal status, laws, etc. 19th century. United States |
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Merchant mariners, Black Legal status, laws, etc. 19th century. Southern States |
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D971.227/1 |