Title: The fugitive's properties
Description: 'The Fugitive's Properties' uncovers a poetics of intangible personified property emerging out of antebellum laws circulating through key 19th century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, American literature, Fugitive slaves, Fugitive slaves in literature, History, History and criticism, Law and literature, Legal status, laws, Property in literature, Race in literature, Slavery in literature, Stowe, harriet beecher, 1811-1896, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Fugitive slaves, united states
Places: United States
People: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Time periods: 19th century