Moral Contagion

Moral Contagion

Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America

Schoeppner, Michael A.

Cambridge University Press

07/2020

266

Mole

Inglês

9781108455121

15 a 20 dias

420

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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.
moral contagion; Negro Seamen Acts; police powers; Commerce Clause; African-American citizenship; Great Britain; diplomacy; courts; State Department; moral contagion; Negro Seamen Acts; South Carolina; Denmark Vesey; Haiti; James Hamilton; Robert Turnbull; Charleston; Black Atlantic; Commercial Convention of 1815; South Carolina Association; Elkison v. Deliesseline; Benjamin Hunt; William Johnson; citizenship; Caroliniensis; Calder v. Deliesseline; State v. Daley; moral contagion; quarantine; David Walker; North Carolina; Georgia; quarantine; Lord Palmerston; Edward Livingston; Roger B. Taney; John Berrien; Nullification; British consuls; Cuba; Nicholas Trist; Slavery Abolition Act; New York v. Miln; Robert Winthrop; abolitionist mail campaign; Mobile Alabama; John Forsyth; Kenneth Rayner; William Ogilby; Samuel Hoar; Benjamin Hunt; Massachusetts; John Jones; Captain James Hogg; Charleston; New Orleans; Henry Hubbard; British Foreign Office; Mobile; New Orleans; Lord Aberdeen; Dred Scott; South Carolina; Georgia; Means-Mathew Affair; Compromise of 1850; birthright citizenship; William C. Nell; citizenship; William Powell; petition; black abolitionists; captains; Dred Scott; Fourteenth Amendment; Reconstruction; immgration; moral contagion; New Orleans; Charleston; Louisiana; South Carolina; Alabama; Georgia; arrests totals