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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, ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS366.A35 A28 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 257 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Feminism and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Enslaved persons > United States > Biography > History and criticism
- African American women > Biography > History and criticism
- African Americans > Biography > History and criticism
- Enslaved persons' writings, American > History and criticism
- African American women > Intellectual life
- Autobiography > African American authors
- African American women in literature
- Slavery in literature
- Law and literature
- Race in literature
- African American women > Biography
- African American women in literature
- African American women > Intellectual life
- African Americans > Biography
- American prose literature
- American prose literature > African American authors
- American prose literature > Women authors
- Autobiography > African American authors
- Feminism and literature
- Law and literature
- Race in literature
- Slavery in literature
- Enslaved persons > Biography
- Enslaved persons' writings, American
- Women and literature
- Literatur
- Sklaverei
- Frauenliteratur
- United States
- USA
- Schwärze
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-249) and index.
- Contents
- Part one: Introduction -- Legal fictions of slavery and resistance -- "Further deponent sayeth not" : multiple consciousness and suppressed narratives in tellings of slave revolt -- Part two: "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 -- Part three: "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.
- ISBN
- 0814208835
- 9780814208830
- 0814250815
- 9780814250815
- LCCN
- 2001002939
- OCLC
- ocm47045257
- 47045257
- SCSB-1240668
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library