Bond of citizenship : law and the labour of emancipation by Hoang Gia Phan.
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TextLanguage: Publication details: New York : New York University Press, 2013.Description: 256 pISBN: - 9780814771709
- 342.73087 PHA/BON
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Table of Contents:
Introduction: "A Man from Another Country": Citizenship and the Bonds of Labor
Chapter 1.Bound by Law: Apprenticeship and the Culture of 'Free' Labor
Chapter 2. Civic Virtues: Narrative form and the trial of Character in Early America
Chapter 3. Fugitive Bonds: Contract and the Culture of Constitutionalism
Chapter 4. Hereditary Bondsman: Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of the Law
Chapter 5. "If Man will strike": Moby Dick and the Letter of the Law
Conclusion: The Labors of Emancipation-Founded Law and Freedom defined
Notes
Index
About the Author