In the Shadow of the Gallows - Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

Jeannine Marie DeLombard is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Slavery on Trial: Law, Print, and Abolitionism.

List of contents

Introduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man

PART I

Chapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact

Chapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self

PART II

Chapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics

Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America

Chapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship

Chapter 6. Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Jeannine Marie DeLombard is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Slavery on Trial: Law, Print, and Abolitionism.

Summary

In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.

Product details

• Authors: Jeannine Marie Delombard
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2014
• EAN: 9780812223170
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2317-0
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Haney Foundation Series; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology