Slavery on trial : law, abolitionism, and print culture /
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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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2007]
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| 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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| Online Access: | HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice |
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| 100 | 1 | |a DeLombard, Jeannine Marie, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Slavery on trial : |b law, abolitionism, and print culture / |c Jeannine Marie DeLombard. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Chapel Hill : |b University of North Carolina Press, |c [2007] | |
| 264 | 2 | |a [Getzville, New York] : |b William S. Hein & Company, |c [2016] | |
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| 490 | 1 | |a HeinOnline civil rights and social justice | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-307) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on PDF title page, viewed October 2, 2016. | ||
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| 830 | 0 | |a UNC Press law publications. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a World trials library. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Civil rights and social justice. | |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | |3 HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice |u http://ezp1.villanova.edu/login?url=https://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.slavery/uncaada0001&id=1&size=2&collection=civil&index=civil |
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