The struggles of John Brown Russwurm : the life and writings of a pan-Africanist pioneer, 1799-1851 /
Historians often rely on a handful of unusual cases to illustrate the absence of free speech in the colonies-such as that of Richard Barnes, who had his arms broken and a hole bored through his tongue for seditious words against the governor of Virginia. In this definitive and accessible work, Larry...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Charts; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Leaving the Shadow; ONE The Boundaries of Colonial Speech; TWO Seditious Speech Law; THREE The Nature of the Words; FOUR Between the Millstones; FIVE Sanctions in Decline; SIX A Growing Leniency; SEVEN Fruits of Circumstance; Notes; Bibliography; Index.