Title: The regulations of robbers : legal fictions of slavery and resistance /
Authors: Accomando, Christina
Publisher: Ohio State University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: American prose literature African American authors History and criticism.; American prose literature Women authors History and criticism.; American prose literature History and criticism.; Feminism and literature United States History; Slaves United States Biography History and criticism; African American women Biography History and criticism.; African Americans Biography History and criticism; Slaves' writings, American History and criticism.; Autobiography African American authors; Slavery in literature; Law and literature.; Race in literature.; Women and literature United States History; African American women Intellectual life.; African American women in literature.
Contents: Legal fictions of slavery and resistance -- "Further deponent sayeth not": multiple consciousness and suppressed narratives in tellings of slave revolt -- Part two: "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 -- Part three: 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.