03302nam 2200649 a 450 991081674520332120200520144314.01-4696-0579-10-8078-8773-0(CKB)1000000000764471(EBL)454810(OCoLC)649053340(SSID)ssj0000246710(PQKBManifestationID)11239565(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246710(PQKBWorkID)10190082(PQKB)11696407(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245664(MdBmJHUP)muse28012(Au-PeEL)EBL454810(CaPaEBR)ebr10310768(CaONFJC)MIL930621(MiAaPQ)EBC454810(EXLCZ)99100000000076447120061031d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSlavery on trial[electronic resource] law, abolitionism, and print culture /Jeannine Marie DeLombardChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (345 p.)Studies in legal historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-5812-9 0-8078-3086-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-307) and index.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 AcreConclusion: 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; ZAmerica'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 ThStudies in legal history.SlaveryLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistorySourcesSlaveryUnited StatesHistorySourcesSlavery in literatureSlaveryLaw and legislationHistorySlaveryHistorySlavery in literature.342.7308/7DeLombard Jeannine Marie1666598MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816745203321Slavery on trial4107930UNINA