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Slavery on trial : law, abolitionism, and print culture / Jeannine Marie DeLombard.
DeLombard, Jeannine Marie author.
2007
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Author
DeLombard, Jeannine Marie author.
Title
Slavery on trial : law, abolitionism, and print culture / Jeannine Marie DeLombard.
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Distributed
[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2016]
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Description
1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : illustrations.
System Control No.
(NjRocCCS)ccn00777398
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-307) and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on PDF title page, viewed October 2, 2016.
Series
Studies in legal history.
UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
World trials library.
Civil rights and social justice.
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Original 9780807830864 (DLC) 2006036296
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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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