Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America / Michael A. Schoeppner, University of Maine, Farmington.

"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 vio...

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Main Author: Schoeppner, Michael A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:Studies in legal history.
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505 0 0 |g The  |t Atlantic's dangerous undercurrents --  |t Containing a moral contagion, 1822-1829 --The  |t contagion spreads, 1829-1833 --  |t Confronting a pandemic, 1834-1842 --  |t "Foreign" emissaries and rights discourse, 1842-1847 --  |t Sacrificing Black citizenship, 1848-1859 --  |t Black sailors, their communities, and the fight for citizenship. 
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