TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeLombard,Jeannine Marie
TI  - In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
T2  - Haney Foundation Series
SN  - 9780812206333
AV  - PS173.N4 D44 2012 
U1  - 810.9/896073 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - African Americans in literature--History and criticism
KW  - American literature--African American authors--History and criticism
KW  - African Americans--Race identity--History
KW  - African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History
KW  - Crime and race--United States--History
KW  - Citizenship--United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man -- PART I -- 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact -- 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self -- PART II -- 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics -- 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America -- 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship -- 6. Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments
N2  - In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging
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