Slavery on Trial
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/2009
Pages: 344
Subject: History, Law, Literary Criticism
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807887738
DESCRIPTION
Discussing autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, a scandal narrative about Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist speech by Henry David Thoreau, sentimental fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a proslavery novel by William MacCreary Burwell, DeLombard argues that American literature of the era cannot be fully understood without an appreciation for the slavery debate in the courts and in print. Combining legal, literary, and book history approaches, Slavery on Trial provides a refreshing alternative to the official perspectives offered by the nation's founding documents, legal treatises, statutes, and judicial decisions. DeLombard invites us to view the intersection of slavery and law as so many antebellum Americans did--through the lens of popular print culture.
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