Marie or, Slavery in the United States
Subtitle: A Novel of Jacksonian America (Race in the Americas)
Contributors: Gerard Fergerson (Introduction); Barbara Chapman (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 10, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801860645
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Racism & racial discrimination; Social history; United States - General; Slavery; Fiction; Women slaves; French Novel And Short Story; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; USA; Classics; European - General; Fiction / Classics; History : United States - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Literary Criticism : European - General; Social conditions; 19th century; Slaves; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Historical - General; United States; History
First sentence: In his 1938 biography of M. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), George Wilson Pierson establishes the powerfull influence of Tocqueville's lifelong friend and fellow lawyer, Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866), on the conclusions advanced in Democracy in America.