Slavery on trial
Subtitle: law, abolitionism, and print culture
By: Jeannine Marie DeLombard.
Series: Studies in legal history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780807830864; 9780807858127
Subjects: Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources; Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources; Slavery in literature
Genres: Sources.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: The typographical tribunal; title: Precarious evidence : Sojourner Truth and the Matthias scandal; title: Eyewitness to the cruelty : Frederick Douglass's 1845 narrative; title: Talking lawyerlike about law : black advocacy and my bondage and my freedom; title: Representing the slave : white advocacy and black testimony in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred; title: The South's countersuit : William MacCreary Burwell's White acre vs. Black acre; title: All done Brown at last : illustrating Harpers Ferry.