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Contents |
Legal fictions of slavery and resistance -- "Further deponent sayeth not": multiple consciousness and suppressed narratives in tellings of slave revolt -- "I want it root and branch destroyed": the radical politics and shifting voices of Sojourner Truth. A woman among the pettifoggers: truth as legal actor -- Framing truth and resisting frames -- The regulations of robbers: Harriet Jacobs's legal critique. "We could have told them a different story": slave law and slave voices -- Reframing legal fictions of womanhood -- Epilogue. Confronting the legacies: decoding modern rhetorics of race. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249) and index. |
LCCN | 2001002939 |
ISBN | 0814208835 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0814250815 (pbk. : alk. paper) |