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Twain, Mark --- Race relations in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Fugitive slaves in literature

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West Indian literature (French) --- Fugitive slaves in literature. --- Littérature antillaise (française) --- Esclaves fugitifs dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Slavery in literature. --- Littérature antillaise (française) --- Esclaves fugitifs dans la littérature --- West Indian literature (French) - History and criticism.

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Blancs dans la littérature --- Blanken in de literatuur --- Boys in literature --- Esclaves fugitifs dans la littérature --- Fugitive slaves in literature --- Garçons dans la littérature --- Jongens in de literatuur --- Race relations in literature --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Voortvluchtige slaven in de literatuur --- Whites in literature --- Twain, Mark --- Criticism and interpretation --- Political and social views --- Literature and society --- United States --- History --- 19th century --- Race relations

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In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.

American literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Fugitive slaves --- Law and literature --- African Americans in literature. --- Fugitive slaves in literature. --- Property in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- History and criticism. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, --- Enslaved persons in literature --- literature, law, slavery, fugitive, property, antebellum, blackface, minstrelsy, race films, appearance, expression, personhood, commodity, commodification, patents, uncle toms cabin, harriet beecher stowe, theft, gift, copyright, nonfiction, possession, chattel, labor, power, agency, wealth, economics, gender, masculinity, femininity.

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Essays offer a critical analysis of "The Bondwoman's Narrative," a first novel written by a female African-American slave, assessing the influence of the work on our view of slavery, African-American history, and antebellum literature.

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