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Moral Contagion - Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America (Paperback)
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Moral Contagion - Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Legal History
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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'.
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