The press and slavery in America, 1791-1859
Subtitle: the melancholy effect of popular excitement
By: Brian Gabrial
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611176032; 9781611176049
Subjects: Press coverage; Mass media and race relations; Journalism; Periodicals; Slavery; Public opinion; American newspapers; Mass media and public opinion; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racism and slavery in America; title: The press and slave troubles in America; title: Haiti in 1791, Gabriel Prosser's 1800 conspiracy, and the 1811 German coast slave revolt; title: Denmark Vesey's 1822 conspiracy and Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt; title: Slavery, the press, and America's transformation, 1831-59; title: John Brown's "Greatest or principal object"; title: From madman to martyr : John Brown's transformation in the northern antislavery press; title: Media discourses about slavery; title: Dealing with slavery's enemies; title: A racial panic; title: Maintaining slavery; title: Slavery divides the nation; title: Slavery's immorality and destruction of civil liberties; title: Slavery destroys freedom of the press; title: The press and slavery's legacy.