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The press and slavery in America, 1791-1859 : the melancholy effect of popular excitement
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The press and slavery in America, 1791-1859 : the melancholy effect of popular excitement / Brian Gabrial.
ISBN
9781611176032 (hardbound : alk. paper)
9781611176049 (e-book)
Publication
Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 online resource (257 pages)
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Print version: Gabrial, Brian. Press and slavery in America, 1791-1859 : the melancholy effect of popular excitement. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2016]
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 31, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Racism and slavery in America
The press and slave troubles in America
Haiti in 1791, Gabriel Prosser's 1800 conspiracy, and the 1811 German coast slave revolt
Denmark Vesey's 1822 conspiracy and Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt
Slavery, the press, and America's transformation, 1831-59
John Brown's "Greatest or principal object"
From madman to martyr : John Brown's transformation in the northern antislavery press
Media discourses about slavery
Dealing with slavery's enemies
A racial panic
Maintaining slavery
Slavery divides the nation
Slavery's immorality and destruction of civil liberties
Slavery destroys freedom of the press
The press and slavery's legacy.
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