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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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Schoeppner, Michael A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:Studies in legal history.
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