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The Resource Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America, Michael A. Schoeppner, (electronic resource)

Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America, Michael A. Schoeppner, (electronic resource)

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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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eng
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1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages)
Contents
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The Atlantic's Dangerous Undercurrents; 2. Containing a Moral Contagion, 1822-1829; 3. The Contagion Spreads, 1829-1833; 4. Confronting a Pandemic, 1834-1842; 5. "Foreign" Emissaries and Rights Discourse, 1842-1847; 6. Sacrificing Black Citizenship, 1848-1859; 7. From the Decks to the Jails to Assembly Halls: Black Sailors, Their Communities, and the Fight for Black Citizenship; Epilogue
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9781108455121
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Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America
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Moral contagion
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black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America
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Michael A. Schoeppner
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Language
eng
Summary
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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Schoeppner, Michael A
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  • Studies in legal history
  • Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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  • Free African Americans
  • Free Blacks
  • Merchant mariners, Black
  • United States
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Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America, Michael A. Schoeppner, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108695404
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The Atlantic's Dangerous Undercurrents; 2. Containing a Moral Contagion, 1822-1829; 3. The Contagion Spreads, 1829-1833; 4. Confronting a Pandemic, 1834-1842; 5. "Foreign" Emissaries and Rights Discourse, 1842-1847; 6. Sacrificing Black Citizenship, 1848-1859; 7. From the Decks to the Jails to Assembly Halls: Black Sailors, Their Communities, and the Fight for Black Citizenship; Epilogue
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Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages)
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Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9781108455121
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computer
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digital, PDF file(s).
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(OCoLC)1083671342
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Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America, Michael A. Schoeppner, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108695404
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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text
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rdacontent
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The Atlantic's Dangerous Undercurrents; 2. Containing a Moral Contagion, 1822-1829; 3. The Contagion Spreads, 1829-1833; 4. Confronting a Pandemic, 1834-1842; 5. "Foreign" Emissaries and Rights Discourse, 1842-1847; 6. Sacrificing Black Citizenship, 1848-1859; 7. From the Decks to the Jails to Assembly Halls: Black Sailors, Their Communities, and the Fight for Black Citizenship; Epilogue
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CR9781108695404
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781108455121
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1083671342

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