In the Shadow of the Gallows : Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity.

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.

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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