Moral contagion : black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America /

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

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Publisher's description: 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...

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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.
Subjects:
Free African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 19th century.
Free Black people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History > 19th century.
Merchant mariners, Black > Legal status, laws, etc. > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Diplomatic relations.
United States > Foreign relations > 1783-1865.
Southern States.
United States.
History.

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