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BL
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711475
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b533664
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| Main Entry
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Best, Stephen Michael.
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| Title & Author
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The fugitive's properties : : law and the poetics of possession /\ Stephen M. Best.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, c2004.
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xii, 362 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0226044335 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226044343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-351) and index.
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| Contents
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INTRODUCTION: The Slave's Two Bodies -- Fugitive Property -- The Agency of Form -- Caveat Emptor: Fugitive Sound: Fungible Personhood, Evanescent Property -- Theft and Gift -- Copyright Law -- The Human Phonograph -- The Poetics of Property, 1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Impersonation -- Pro Bono Publico: The Fugitive's Properties: Uncle Tom's Incalculable Dividend -- Fictions of Finance: Puttin' on Old Massa -- Pro Bono Publico -- Tom's par me la -- Castles in the Air -- The Social Covenant of Property -- Cuttin' of Figgers -- Sine Qua Non: Counterfactuals, Causation, and the Tenses of "Separate but Equal" -- In Plain Black and White -- Parallel Tracks -- What Happened in the Tunnel -- CONCLUSION: The Rules of the Game -- Sin and Risk -- Principle and History -- Procedure and Pragmatism.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher,1811-1896., Uncle Tom's cabin.
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African Americans in literature.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Fugitive slaves in literature.
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Fugitive slaves-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- United States.
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Law and literature-- History-- 19th century.
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Property in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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| LC Classification
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PS217.S55B47 2004
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