. . . . . . . . . "In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor. Bonds of Citizenship illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labor ideology in American culture. Phan argues that in the age of Emancipation the cultural attributes of free personhood became identified with the legal rights and privileges of the"@en . . "\"Phan argues that in the age of Emancipation the cultural attributes of free personhood became identified with the legal rights and privileges of the citizen, and that individual freedom thus became identified with the nation-state. He situates the emergence of American citizenship and the American novel within the context of Atlantic slavery and Anglo-American legal culture, placing early American texts by Hector St. John de Crévecœur, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Brockden Brown alongside Black Atlantic texts by Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano. Beginning with a revisionary reading of the Constitution's 'slavery clauses, ' Phan recovers indentured servitude as a transitional form of labor bondage that helped define the key terms of modern U.S. citizenship: mobility, volition, and contract. Bonds of Citizenship demonstrates how citizenship and civic culture were transformed by antebellum debates over slavery, free labor, and national Union, while analyzing the writings of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville alongside a wide-ranging archive of lesser-known antebellum legal and literary texts in the context of changing conceptions of constitutionalism, property, and contract. Situated at the nexus of literary criticism, legal studies, and labor history, Bonds of Citizenship challenges the founding fiction of a pro-slavery Constitution central to American letters and legal culture.\"--Publisher's website." . . "Bonds of Citizenship : Law and the Labors of Emancipation"@en . "Bonds of Citizenship : Law and the Labors of Emancipation" . . . "History"@en . "History" . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "Bonds of citizenship law and the labors of emancipation"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Bonds of Citizenship Law and the Labors of Emancipation"@en . . . . . . . . . "Bonds of citizenship : law and the labors of emancipation" . . . . . . . . . . "LAW Constitutional." . . "Citoyenneté États-Unis Histoire." . . "Indentured servants Legal status, laws, etc." . . "Slavery in literature." . . "Slavery in literature" . "USA." . . "Esclavage États-Unis Histoire." . . "Citizenship United States History." . . "Citizenship -- United States -- History." . "Employeur et employé dans la littérature." . . "LAW Public." . . "Social structure" . . "Citizenship Philosophy" . . "Esclaves Droit États-Unis Histoire." . . "Slaves Legal status, laws, etc." . . "Slavery United States History." . . "Slavery -- United States -- History." . "Slavery" . . "Citizenship United States Philosophy." . . "Citizenship -- United States -- Philosophy." . "Geschichte Anfänge-1900." . . "Master and servant in literature." . . "Master and servant in literature" . "Main-d'œuvre engagée à long terme Droit États-Unis Histoire." . . "Citizenship in literature." . . "Citizenship in literature" . "Sklaverei." . . "Structure sociale États-Unis Histoire." . . "Esclavage dans la littérature." . . "Citoyenneté États-Unis Philosophie." . . "Slaves Legal status, laws, etc. United States History." . . "Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History." . . . "Citizenship" . . "Indentured servants Legal status, laws, etc. United States History." . . "Indentured servants -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History." . "Arbeitsrecht." . . "Social structure United States History." . . "Social structure -- United States -- History." . "United States" . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural." . . "Citoyenneté dans la littérature." . .