Edlie L Wong: 2 books
Neither Fugitive nor Free
Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets,...
Racial Reconstruction
Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured laborers in what became known as “coolieism.” From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court...