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Slavery on trial : law, abolitionism, and print culture /

The author 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeLombard, Jeannine Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Colección:Studies in legal history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.