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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452177603321

Autore

Fanuzzi Robert

Titolo

Abolition's public sphere / / Robert Fanuzzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2003

ISBN

0-8166-9447-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xl, 331 pages)

Disciplina

326/.8/0973

Soggetti

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Antislavery movements - Public relations - United States

Antislavery movements - United States - Public opinion

Publicity - History - 19th century

Public opinion - United States - History - 19th century

Abolitionists - United States - History - 19th century

Protest literature, American - History and criticism

Material culture - United States - History - 19th century

Political culture - United States - History - 19th century

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Lessons of Repeated Experienceb-- The Sedition of Nonresistance -- Garrisonism and the Public Sphere -- Frederick Douglass's Public Body -- Faneuil Hall: The Civic Institution of the Imaginary -- Thoreau's Civic Imagination -- Douglass's Sublime: The Art of the Slave -- Conclusion: A Cosmopolitan Point of View.

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Fanuzzi illustrates how the dissemination of abolitionist tracts served to create an "imaginary public" that promoted and provoked the discussion of slavery. He critically examines the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and their massive abolition publicity campaign geared to an audience of white male citizens, free black noncitizens,



women, and the enslaved.