Bonds of citizenship : law and the labors of emancipation / by Phan, Hoang Gia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "A man from another country" : citizenship and the bonds of labor -- Bound by law : apprenticeship and the culture of "free" labor -- Civic virtues : narrative form and the trial of character in early America -- Fugitive bonds : contract and the culture of constitutionalism -- Hereditary bondsman : Frederick Douglass and the spirit of the law -- "If man will strike" : Moby-Dick and the letter of the law -- Conclusion : the labors of emancipation : founded law and freedom defined.…”
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Trying Leviathan : the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature / by Burnett, D. Graham

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