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Bonds of Citizenship - Law and the Labors of Emancipation (Hardcover, New)
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Bonds of Citizenship - Law and the Labors of Emancipation (Hardcover, New)
Series: America and the Long 19th Century
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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 the historical
tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract,
and in the emergence of free labor ideology in American culture.
Phan argues that in the age of Emancipation the cultural attributes
of free personhood became identified with the legal rights and
privileges of the citizen, and that individual freedom thus became
identified with the nation-state. He situates the emergence of
American citizenship and the American novel within the context of
Atlantic slavery and Anglo-American legal culture, placing early
American texts by Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Benjamin Franklin,
and Charles Brockden Brown alongside Black Atlantic texts by
Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano. Beginning with a revisionary
reading of the Constitution's "slavery clauses," Phan recovers
indentured servitude as a transitional form of labor bondage that
helped define the key terms of modern U.S. citizenship: mobility,
volition, and contract. Bonds of Citizenship demonstrates how
citizenship and civic culture were transformed by antebellum
debates over slavery, free labor, and national Union, while
analyzing the writings of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville
alongside a wide-ranging archive of lesser-known antebellum legal
and literary texts in the context of changing conceptions of
constitutionalism, property, and contract. Situated at the nexus of
literary criticism, legal studies, and labor history, Bonds of
Citizenship challenges the founding fiction of a pro-slavery
Constitution central to American letters and legal culture.Hoang
Gia Phanis Associate Professor of English at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.In theAmerica and the Long 19th
CenturyseriesAn ALI book
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