Servants, slaves, and savages
Subtitle: reflections of law in American literature
By: Veronica C. Hendrick
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781594604423
Subjects: Indentured servants in literature; African American authors; Slavery in literature; Law and literature; History and criticism; American literature; Law in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legislated inhumanity: the expanding separation of European indentured servants, African slaves, and Native Americans; title: Reflections of law in slave narratives/slave narratives influencing the law; title: American legacies: slave laws and envisioned lives; title: The laws of indentured servitude: fact and fiction in American literature; title: Native American enslavement and other legalized brutality.