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Slavery on trial [electronic resource] : 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 labguage 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) Slavery in America and the World Full Text (via HeinOnline) Full Text (via HeinOnline) Civil Rights and Social Justice
Main Author:	DeLombard, Jeannine Marie (Author)
Other title:	HeinOnline UNC Press law publications. HeinOnline Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. HeinOnline world trials. HeinOnline civil rights and social justice.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : 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.

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Summary:	The author examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal labguage to 'try' the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-307) and index.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:	Description based on PDF title page, viewed October 2, 2016.