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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Pt. I Banditti and desperadoes, incendiaries and traitors
• 1. typographical tribunal
• 2. Precarious evidence : sojourner truth and the Matthias scandal
• Pt. II At the bar of public opinion
• 3. Eyewitness to the cruelty : Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative
• 4. Talking lawyerlike about law : black advocacy and My bondage and my freedom
• 5. Representing the slave : white advocacy and black testimony in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred
• 6. south's countersuit : William MacCreary Burwell's White acre vs. black acre.

Author/Creator:

DeLombard, Jeannine Marie

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Slavery on trial: law, abolitionism, and print culture [by DeLombard, J.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Slavery on trial [by DeLombard, J.M.] (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007)

Related Series:

Studies in legal history

Subjects:

Slavery — Law and legislation — United States — History — Sources

Slavery — United States — History — Sources

Slavery in literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

KF4545.S5 D45 2007eb

ISBNs:

9780807887738 (electronic bk.)
0807887730 (electronic bk.)
9780807830864 [Invalid]
0807830860 [Invalid]
9780807858127 [Invalid]
0807858129 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1053491138

Other Control Numbers:

EBC454810 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp3054030