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

Slavery on trial : law, abolitionism, and print culture / Jeannine Marie DeLombard.

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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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via HeinOnline)
Main Author: DeLombard, Jeannine Marie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Series:Studies in legal history.
Subjects:
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States > History > Sources.
Slavery > United States > History > Sources.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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