Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America

ISBN-13: 9781108455121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 266 str.

Michael A. Schoeppner

Opis

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

Recenzje

'… the book is a rigorous study of law, citizenship, and diplomacy and makes a welcome addition to the literature of southern history, Atlantic history, and antebellum political and legal history.' Ikuko Asaka, Journal of Southern History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The Atlantic's dangerous undercurrents; 2. Containing a moral contagion, 1822–9; 3. The contagion spreads, 1829–33; 4. Confronting a pandemic, 1834–42; 5. 'Foreign' emissaries and rights discourse, 1842–7; 6. Sacrificing black citizenship, 1848–59; 7. From the decks to the jails to assembly halls: black sailors, their communities, and the fight for black citizenship; Epilogue.