03052nam 2200661 450 991078807540332120230803200022.01-4529-4212-9(CKB)2670000000574667(EBL)1833634(SSID)ssj0001367328(PQKBManifestationID)11883113(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001367328(PQKBWorkID)11444404(PQKB)10751900(MiAaPQ)EBC1833634(Au-PeEL)EBL1833634(CaPaEBR)ebr10967791(CaONFJC)MIL657960(OCoLC)894278353(EXLCZ)99267000000057466720141118h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAbolitionist Geographies /Martha SchoolmanMinneapolis, Minnesota :University of Minnesota Press,2014.©20141 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-8075-2 1-322-26680-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Introduction: What Is Abolitionist Geography?; 1. Emerson's Hemisphere; 2. August First and the Practice of Disunion; 3. William Wells Brown's Critical Cosmopolitanism; 4. Uncle Tom's Cabin's Anti-expansionism; 5. The Maroon's Moment, 1856- 1861; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; WTraditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. Through the idiom Schoolman names "abolitionist geography," these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of Antislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAbolitionistsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryGeography in literatureAntislavery movements in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAntislavery movementsHistoryAbolitionistsHistoryGeography in literature.Antislavery movements in literature.African Americans in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.326/.8097309034Schoolman Martha1496975MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788075403321Abolitionist Geographies3721951UNINA