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The regulations of robbers : legal fictions of slavery and resistance
- Title
- The regulations of robbers : legal fictions of slavery and resistance / Christina Accomando.
- Author
- Accomando, Christina.
- Publication
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2001.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 257 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism
- Autobiography > African American authors
- African Americans > Biography > History and criticism
- Feminism and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Race in literature
- American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Slaves > United States > Biography > History and criticism
- American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Law and literature
- Slavery in literature
- African American women > Biography > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249) and index.
- Contents
- Legal fictions of slavery and resistance -- "Further deponent sayeth not": multiple consciousness and suppressed narratives in tellings of slave revolt -- "I want it root and branch destroyed": the radical politics and shifting voices of Sojourner Truth. A woman among the pettifoggers: truth as legal actor -- Framing truth and resisting frames -- The regulations of robbers: Harriet Jacobs's legal critique. "We could have told them a different story": slave law and slave voices -- Reframing legal fictions of womanhood -- Epilogue. Confronting the legacies: decoding modern rhetorics of race.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-101
- ISBN
- 0814208835 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814250815 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001002939
- OCLC
- 47045257
- Author
- Accomando, Christina.
- Title
- The regulations of robbers : legal fictions of slavery and resistance / Christina Accomando.
- Imprint
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-101