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200 10$aSlavery on trial $elaw, abolitionism, and print culture /$fJeannine Marie DeLombard
205   $a1st ed.
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.
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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
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