Law and the Labors of Emancipation
by
Hoang Gia Phan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor. Bonds of Citizenship illuminates...