RT Book
T1 Everyday Crimes: Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America
A1 Ryan, Kelly A.
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB New York University Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1724741446
AB Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Young Servants and Apprentices -- Chapter 2. White Wives -- Chapter 3. Slaves -- Chapter 4. Suspicious Servants and Slaves -- Chapter 5. Questionable Loyalties -- Chapter 6. Opportunities and Setbacks -- Chapter 7. Relationship Building -- Chapter 8. Legal Strategies for Civil Rights -- Conclusion: Affecting the Government, Law, and Public Mind -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
AB The narratives of slaves, wives, and servants who resisted social and domestic violence in the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, Peter Wheeler, a slave to Gideon Morehouse in New York, protested, “Master, I won’t stand this,” after Morehouse beat Wheeler’s hands with a whip. Wheeler ran for safety, but Morehouse followed him with a shotgun and fired several times. Wheeler sought help from people in the town, but his eventual escape from slavery was the only way to fully secure his safety. Everyday Crimes tells the story of legally and socially dependent people like Wheeler—free and enslaved African Americans, married white women, and servants—who resisted violence in Massachusetts and New York despite lacking formal protection through the legal system. These “dependents” found ways to fight back against their abusers through various resistance strategies. Individuals made it clear that they wouldn’t stand the abuse. Developing relationships with neighbors and justices of the peace, making their complaints known within their communities, and, occasionally, resorting to violence, were among their tactics. In bearing their scars and telling their stories, these victims of abuse put a human face on the civil rights issues related to legal and social dependency, and claimed the rights of individuals to live without fear of violence
CN HN90.V5
SN 978-1-4798-7251-0
K1 Violence : United States : History
K1 Civil Rights : United States : History
K1 Violence : Social aspects : United States
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
K1 African Americans
K1 American Revolution
K1 Amos Broad
K1 Apprentice
K1 Civil rights
K1 Cruelty
K1 Divorce
K1 Emancipation
K1 Free African Americans
K1 Human rights
K1 New Netherland
K1 New York Manumission Society
K1 Nonviolence
K1 Patriarchy
K1 Resistance
K1 Self licensing
K1 Servants
K1 Slavery
K1 abolition
K1 antislavery
K1 bond for peace
K1 colonial America
K1 doctrine of coverture
K1 freedom suits
K1 gradual emancipation
K1 legal history
K1 revolutionary America
K1 riot
K1 servitude
K1 slave uprising
K1 USA : Gewalttätigkeit : Verbrechensopfer : Soziale Abhängigkeit : Widerstand : Bürgerrecht : Geschichte Anfänge-1865
K1 eBook-DeGruyter-EBS-2021-2022
DO 10.18574/9781479872510