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Slavery on trial law, abolitionism, and print culture
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Slavery on trial [electronic resource] : law, abolitionism, and print culture / Jeannine Marie DeLombard.
ISBN
9781469605791 (ebook) :
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 330 p.) : ill.
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Summary
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. The author of this book 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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North Carolina scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 06, 2016
Series
Studies in legal history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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