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Abolition's Public Sphere /

Robert Fanuzzi illustrates how the dissemination of abolitionist tracts served to create an "imaginary public" that promoted and provoked the discussion of slavery. He critically examines the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Sarah and Angelin...

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Autor principal: Fanuzzi, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Lessons of Repeated Experience; 1. The Sedition of Nonresistance; 2. Garrisonism and the Public Sphere; 3. Frederick Douglass's Public Body; 4. Faneuil Hall: The Civic Institution of the Imaginary; 5. Thoreau's Civic Imagination; 6. Douglass's Sublime: The Art of the Slave; Conclusion: A Cosmopolitan Point of View; Notes; Index.