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Author:

DeLombard, Jeannine Marie.

Title:

Slavery on trial : law, abolitionism, and print culture / Jeannine Marie DeLombard.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xiv, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--History--United States--History--Sources.
Slavery--United States--History.--Sources.
Slavery in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-307) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The typographical tribunal -- Precarious evidence : Sojourner Truth and the Matthias scandal -- Eyewitness to the cruelty : Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative -- Talking lawyerlike about law : black advocacy and My bondage and my freedom -- Representing the slave : white advocacy and black testimony in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred -- The South's countersuit : William Maccreary Burwell's White acre vs. Black acre -- Conclusion : All done brown at last : illustrating Harpers Ferry.

Series:

Studies in legal history

ISBN:

0807858129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807858127 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807830860 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807830864 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)74965063

LCCN:

2006036296

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)