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Democratic discourses : the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature /
In this path-breaking study, Michael Bennett departs from tradition to argue that the democratic ideal of equality and the actual ways in which it has been practiced are grounded less in the fledgling government documents written by a handful of white men than in the actions and writings of the radi...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Democratic discourses : visiting the national anti-slavery bazaar
- 2. Bodily democracy : Frances Ellen Watkins and Walt Whitman sing the body electric
- 3. Gender democracy : Margaret Fuller and Sojourner Truth argue the case of Woman versus women
- 4. Economic democracy : Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau negotiate the Mason-Dixon Line.