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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the king's two bodies in book 1 (“Of the Rights of Persons”), chapter 7 (“Of the King's Prerogative”) of Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. It argues that the secular jurisprudence of nineteenth-century America both needs a similar structure of embodiment and finds a correlate persona in the chattel slave. The discussions then turn to fugitive property, the book's method of “fugitive cuts”, and a subtle form of causality called agency of form.
Keywords: slaves; slavery; secular jurisprudence; fugitive; property; causality; form
Chapter. 11062 words.
Subjects: Literary Studies (19th Century)
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