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Autore |
DeLombard Jeannine Marie |
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Titolo |
Slavery on trial [[electronic resource] ] : law, abolitionism, and print culture / / Jeannine Marie DeLombard |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0579-1 |
0-8078-8773-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - Law and legislation - United States - History |
Slavery - United States - History |
Slavery in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-307) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Banditti and Desperadoes, Incendiaries and Traitors; 1 The Typographical Tribunal; 2 Precarious Evidence: Sojourner Truth and the Matthias Scandal; Part II: At the Bar of Public Opinion; 3 Eyewitness to the Cruelty: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative; 4 Talking Lawyerlike about Law: Black Advocacy and My Bondage and My Freedom; 5 Representing the Slave: White Advocacy and Black Testimony in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred; 6 The South's Countersuit: William MacCreary Burwell's White Acre vs. Black Acre |
Conclusion: All Done Brown at Last: Illustrating Harpers FerryNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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