03154nam 2200685 a 450 991080849590332120200520144314.00-8166-9447-8(CKB)1000000000346791(EBL)310635(OCoLC)476095334(SSID)ssj0000096144(PQKBManifestationID)11108798(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096144(PQKBWorkID)10076692(PQKB)11631327(MiAaPQ)EBC310635(EXLCZ)99100000000034679120030304d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAbolition's public sphere /Robert Fanuzzi1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20031 online resource (xl, 331 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4089-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-317) and index.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.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.Antislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsPublic relationsUnited StatesAntislavery movementsUnited StatesPublic opinionPublicityHistory19th centuryPublic opinionUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAbolitionistsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryProtest literature, AmericanHistory and criticismMaterial cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsHistoryAntislavery movementsPublic relationsAntislavery movementsPublic opinion.PublicityHistoryPublic opinionHistoryAbolitionistsHistoryProtest literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Material cultureHistoryPolitical cultureHistory326/.8/0973Fanuzzi Robert1637704MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808495903321Abolition's public sphere3979685UNINA