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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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
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2019.
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