ISBN:
1469636468
,
9781469636467
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Welch, Kimberly M Black litigants in the antebellum American South
DDC:
305.896/073075
Keywords:
African Americans Social conditions 19th century
;
African Americans Social conditions 19th century
;
Actions and defenses
;
Actions and defenses
;
African Americans History To 1863
;
African Americans History To 1863
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century
;
Actions and defenses
;
African Americans
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African Americans ; Social conditions
;
History
;
Mississippi
;
Louisiana
Abstract:
"This work explores free and enslaved African Americans' involvement in a broad range of civil actions in the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana between 1800 and 1860. Though the antebellum southern courts have long been understood as institutions supporting the class interests and the racial ideologies of the planter and merchant elite, Kimberly Welch shows how black litigants found ways to advocate for themselves even within a racist system. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular. Because private property and slavery were fundamentally linked in the minds of slave owners, the term 'property' contained a group of metaphors that underwrote a set of white, male claims about autonomy, membership, citizenship, and personhood"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636436.001.0001
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