贩卖Elisha Webb:英属北美的黑人自由诉求

IF 1.1 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Terri L. Snyder
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摘要:这篇文章探讨了Elisha Webb的故事,她是一位非洲裔女性,出生于弗吉尼亚州东岸(约1716年)。1737年,她被非法贩卖为奴隶,并被贩卖到新罕布什尔州的朴茨茅斯。韦布在1742年成功获得了自由身份,她为重新获得自由身份所做的努力说明了非裔美国人在北美早期对自由的合法要求。尽管像韦布这样的人在获得自由方面完成了至关重要的工作,但我们往往认为他们对自由的主张在政治上还不成熟。通过融合微观史、法律史和传记,文章将进化前的自由诉讼重新定义为黑人反奴隶制政治漫长轨迹的一部分。像韦布这样的案例将进化前的自由诉讼重新定义为源于一种本土传统,这种传统为废除自由提供了一个起源点。韦布的自由诉讼使这一本土传统的三个关键领域显而易见——黑人社区的集体、可移植和工具性法律知识;黑人社区内部以及黑人和白人社区网络的作用;以及黑人妇女在反奴隶制工作中的独特地位。
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The Trafficking of Elisha Webb: Black Freedom Claims in British North America
Abstract:This article examines the story of Elisha Webb, an African-descended woman who was born free (ca. 1716) on Virginia's Eastern Shore. In 1737, she was illegally sold into slavery and trafficked to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Webb's efforts to regain her free status, which she successfully obtained in 1742, illustrate the politics of African American legal claims to freedom in early North America. Although individuals such as Webb accomplished vital work in gaining their liberty, too often we have understood their claims to freedom as politically inchoate. By blending microhistory, legal history, and biography, the article reconceptualizes prerevolutionary freedom suits as part of the long trajectory of Black antislavery politics. Cases such as Webb's reframe prerevolutionary freedom suits as arising from a vernacular tradition that provided one point of origin for abolition. Webb's freedom suit makes visible three key areas of this vernacular tradition—the collective, portable, and instrumental legal knowledge in Black communities; the role of networks within Black communities and across Black and white neighborhoods; and the distinctive position of Black women in antislavery work.
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