Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplom

Moral Contagion\nby Michael A. Schoeppner\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Michael A. Schoeppner\nTitle: Moral Contagion\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781108469999\nISBN-10: 110846999X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nBetween 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a ''moral contagion'' of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived in Southern ports in violation of the laws faced incarceration, corporal punishment, an incipient form of convict leasing, and even punitive enslavement. The sailors, their captains, abolitionists, and .