Title: Democratic dissent & the cultural fictions of antebellum America
Description: "In this study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the "cultural fictions" that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making.".

"Drawing on a rich array of persuasive materials - including speeches and debates, novels and poems, newspaper articles and advertisements, daguerreotypes and paintings, protest pamphlets, reform manifestos, and scientific reports - Hartnett investigates how cultural fictions were presented, how they reflected or exploited larger cultural norms, and why some were more persuasive than others."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American National characteristics, Antislavery movements, Capitalism, Democracy, History, Identity (Psychology), Political aspects of Capitalism, Political aspects of Identity (Psychology), Political aspects of Rhetoric, Political aspects of Slavery, Politics and government, Propaganda, Rhetoric, Slavery, Territorial expansion, Democracy, history, Antislavery movements, united states, United states, politics and government, 1815-1861, United states, territorial expansion, Slavery, united states, Identity politics, Political aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 1845-1861, 19th century