Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America
Resource Information
The work Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
The Resource
Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America
Resource Information
The work Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America
- Title remainder
- black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael A. Schoeppner, University of Maine, Farmington
- Subject
-
- History
- Merchant mariners, Black -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Negro Seamen Acts
- Southern States
- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-1865
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-1865
- 1783-1899
- Diplomatic relations
- Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. | History -- 19th century
- Free blacks -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a "moral contagion" of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived in Southern ports in violation of the laws faced incarceration, corporal punishment, an incipient form of convict leasing, and even punitive enslavement. The sailors, their captains, abolitionists, and British diplomatic agents protested this treatment. They wrote letters, published tracts, cajoled elected officials, pleaded with Southern officials, and litigated in state and federal courts. By deploying a progressive and sweeping notion of national citizenship - one that guaranteed a number of rights against state regulation - they exposed the ambiguity and potential power of national citizenship as a legal category. Ultimately, the Fourteenth Amendment recognized the robust understanding of citizenship championed by antebellum free people of color, by people afflicted with "moral contagion.""--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies in legal history
Context
Context of Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum AmericaWork of
No resources found
No enriched resources found
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.law.upenn.edu/resource/ZjJr4Azkjhg/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.law.upenn.edu/resource/ZjJr4Azkjhg/">Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.law.upenn.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.law.upenn.edu/">Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Work Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.law.upenn.edu/resource/ZjJr4Azkjhg/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.law.upenn.edu/resource/ZjJr4Azkjhg/">Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.law.upenn.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.law.upenn.edu/">Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School</a></span></span></span></span></div>
