Slavery on Trial
Subtitle: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture (Studies in Legal History)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780807858127
Subjects: Constitutional & administrative law; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Slavery & emancipation; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; American - General; Legal History; United States - 19th Century; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; William Lloyd Garrison; Sojourner Truth; John Brown; Harpers Ferry; Nat Turner; antebellum print culture; slavery; abolitionism; public opinion; William McCreary Burwell; slavery debate; racial politics; nineteenth-century American literature; Law and legislation; Slavery; Slavery in literature; Sources; United States