Slavery on trial: law, abolitionism, and print culture
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1. Verfasser: DeLombard, Jeannine Marie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2007
Schriftenreihe:Studies in legal history
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index
Introduction -- The typographical tribunal -- Precarious evidence : Sojourner Truth and the Matthias scandal -- Eyewitness to the cruelty : Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative -- Talking lawyerlike about law : black advocacy and My bondage and my freedom -- Representing the slave : white advocacy and black testimony in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred -- The South's countersuit : William Maccreary Burwell's White acre vs. Black acre -- Conclusion : All done brown at last : illustrating Harpers Ferry
The author examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal labguage to 'try' the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 330 pages)
ISBN:0807887730
1469605791
9780807887738
9781469605791

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