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03670aam a2200505 i 4500 001 31DEFC1A0B6411EAA467CE0D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191120010135 008 180822s2019 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018039930 020 $a 1108455123 020 $a 9781108455121 020 $a 110846999X 020 $a 9781108469999 035 $a (OCoLC)1047773192 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a KF4757 $b .S36 2019 084 $a HIS036000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Schoeppner, Michael A., $e author. 245 10 $a Moral contagion : $b black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America / $c Michael A. Schoeppner, University of Maine, Farmington. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xiii, 252 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in legal history 500 $a Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Florida, 2010) issued under title: Navigating the dangerous Atlantic : black sailors, racial quarantines, and U.S. constitutionalism. 520 $a "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.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The Atlantic's Dangerous Undercurrents; 2. Containing a Moral Contagion, 1822-1829; 3. The Contagion Spreads, 1829-1833; 4. Confronting a Pandemic, 1834-1842; 5. "Foreign" Emissaries and Rights Discourse, 1842-1847; 6. Sacrificing Black Citizenship, 1848-1859; 7. From the Decks to the Jails to Assembly Halls: Black Sailors, Their Communities, and the Fight for Black Citizenship; Epilogue. 650 0 $a Free African Americans $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Free blacks $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Merchant mariners, Black $x History $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1783-1865. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 651 7 $a Southern States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244550 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1783-1899 $2 fast 653 $a Negro Seamen Acts 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781108671095 830 0 $a Studies in legal history. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017024120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=31DEFC1A0B6411EAA467CE0D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search