Slavery on Trial
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to try the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media. Discussing autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, a scandal narrative about Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist speech by Henry David Thoreau, sentimental fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a pro…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-5812-7
- EAN: 9780807858127
- Produktnummer: 15224814
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 346 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.0 cm 558 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 558
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