Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation

Index

249 Index abolitionists: African American, 128, 147, 161–63, 167; Garrisonian, 22–23, 107–10, 120–23, 127, 135, 139, 162, 190, 234n44; moderate political, 4, 108, 120– 121, 136, 166; political, 22, 107–10, 113, 139–40, 162, 238n96; radical political, 113, 120–23, 127–29, 132, 145–46, 161, 166–68, 170–71, 208, 233n24, 234– 35n45, 238n2, 239n21, 239–40n23 Adams, John, 26–27, 29, 32 Adams, John Quincy, 138 Agassiz, Louis, 152 Alien and Sedition crisis, 15 Allen, Richard, 114 Althusser, Louis, 7, 217–18n7 American Anti-Slavery Society, 122, 161, 175–76 American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 114 Anderson, Benedict, 71, 216n56 Andrews, William L., 240n25 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (Walker), 119, 132, 236–37n76 Appleby, Joyce, 211n11, 232n2 apprenticeship: and assimilation, 20, 35, 37, 54, 147, 209, 222n81; and character, 38–39, 42–44, 46–48; and citizenship, 30, 35, 37, 106, 146; and coartación, 56, 222n80; and contract, 41–44; and fugitive labor clause, 5, 7, 16, 109, 111, 129–30, 132, 217n6; and slavery, 4–5, 7, 16, 30, 52, 166–67; and slave emancipation, 20, 48, 50, 52–55, 57, 61– 62, 170–71. See also indentured servant; master and servant law Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 (Brown): apprentice in, 20; Arthur Mervyn (character) as free laborer, 70, 106; assimilation in, 106; as bildungsroman, 71–72; chronotope in, 74–75; citizen in, 21, 70–71, 95, 99; evidence in, 87–89, 99–105; and jury trial, 94–95, 97–102; narrative form of, 71–73, 78–79, 93–95, 101, 104–6; nation in, 71–73; testimony in, 89–91, 93, 95–96, 101, 104–6 Articles of Confederation, 26 assimilation, 35–37, 48, 50, 54–55, 57, 106, 209 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Franklin), 20, 39–44 Baker, Houston, 45, 112, 240n25 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 71, 244n23 Bal, Mieke, 70 Baldwin, Abraham, 15 Balibar, Etienne, 7, 9–10, 212–13n25 Bell, Michael Davitt, 230n99 Benezet, Anthony, 53–54, 57 Benjamin, Walter, 71 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 231–32n1, 239n22 Berthoff, Warner, 230n99 Best, Stephen M., 215n41, 218n10, 239n20 Billy Budd, Sailor; An Inside Narrative 250 Index 119–20, 131–32, 143, 145, 146; and Atlantic slave trade, 20, 32, 33, 45–48; and bondsman, 17, 32, 205; Constitution (U.S.), 11–12, 14, 214–15n35, 215n37; and democratic will, 30; Frederick Douglass’s claims to, 143–46, 171; and Fourteenth Amendment, 11; and free labor, 6–9, 11, 30, 35, 169–71; and Fugitive Slave Clause, 5, 12, 109, 114, 119–20, 131–32; and immigrants, 14, 34–35; and indentured servants, 30; and jury trial, 82–83, 106, 131, 227–28n55; and nation, 11, 19, 72, 78; and the novel, 20–21, 66–68, 70–72, 94–95, 99, 106; and personhood, 11–12, 19, 131; and racial state, 25, 141; racialization of, 33, 119, 131; and representation, 24; republican, 21, 67, 70, 95, 99; and slave, 24, 30–31, 33; split subject of, 23, 36–38, 199; and subjectivation, 9, 141, 212– 13n25; as subjectivity, 10, 14–15, 18–20, 22; and testimony, 21, 86–87, 94, 227n55; and three-fifths clause, 25, 29–32. See also Constitution (U.S.) The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered (Douglass), 146, 152–54, 157 Clay, Henry, 109 coartación, 55, 222n80 Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (Story), 22, 115, 120, 124–26 Commentaries on the Laws of England (Blackstone), 46, 221n62 Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842), 179–80 Compromise of 1850, 2, 19, 22, 108–10, 142, 144, 232n19 Congress of Confederation (1776), 26 Considerations on the nature and extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament (Wilson), 231n115 Constitution (U.S.): Article I, section 2 (Three-Fifths Clause), 12–14, (Melville), 178, 197–98, 201–5 Binder, Guyora, 246n7 Blackstone, William, 46, 64, 82, 221n62 Black Reconstruction in America (Du Bois), 169, 241n47 bondsman: as transition between slavery and freedom, 33, 209; as figure for slave and servant in Constitution, 7–9, 11, 112, 121; in Billy Budd, 201–203; in Byron, 161, 163; and slave personhood, 13–14, 25, 47, 130, 171; and property, 26; self-emancipation of, 160–63, 208; slave as, 112, 141, 162, 167, 209; as figure of working class, 163, 203, 205; as vanishing mediator of citizenship, 10–17, 25–26, 32. See also bound-yetfree labor bound-yet-free labor, 16, 32, 204, 220n49. See also bondsman Bourdieu, Pierre, 37, 230n94 Bromell...