The Fugitive Slave Law in the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Subtitle: American society transforms its culture
By: Gerardo Del Guercio; with a foreword by Robert T. Tally, Jr
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780773445185
Subjects: United States; Fugitive slaves; Slavery in literature; Law and literature; History and criticism; American literature; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-159) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Fugitive Slave Law in Antebellum America : American culture transforms itself; title: Frederick Douglass' 1845 narrative; title: -interpreting barriers and identity; title: Education in the 1845 narrative; title: -resistance, literacy, and abolition; title: Douglass' eternal struggle; title: -place, space, and identity; title: Harriet Beecher Stowe; title: -genre, protest, and identity; title: Uncle Tom's Cabin; title: -the feminization of American abolitionism; title: The next generation; title: -radical emancipation and Antebellum America.