LEADER 03336nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910455200003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0579-1 010 $a0-8078-8773-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764471 035 $a(EBL)454810 035 $a(OCoLC)649053340 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246710 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239565 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246710 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10190082 035 $a(PQKB)11696407 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245664 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454810 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28012 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454810 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310768 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930621 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764471 100 $a20061031d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSlavery on trial$b[electronic resource] $elaw, abolitionism, and print culture /$fJeannine Marie DeLombard 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in legal history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5812-9 311 $a0-8078-3086-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-307) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aConclusion: 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 330 $aAmerica's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to ""try"" the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media. Discussing autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, a scandal narrative about Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist speech by Henry David Th 410 0$aStudies in legal history. 606 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$xHistory$vSources 606 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory$vSources 606 $aSlavery in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 676 $a342.7308/7 700 $aDeLombard$b Jeannine Marie$01028620 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455200003321 996 $aSlavery on trial$92444685 997 $aUNINA