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Author:

Gabrial, Brian, author.

Title:

The press and slavery in America, 1791-1859 : the melancholy effect of popular excitement / Brian Gabrial.

Publisher:

The University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvii, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Slavery--History--United States--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
Journalism--History--United States--History--19th century.
Mass media and public opinion--United States--History--19th century.
Mass media and race relations--United States--History--19th century.
Public opinion--United States--History--19th century.
American newspapers--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.

Contents:

Racism and slavery in America -- The press and slave troubles in America -- Haiti in 1791, Gabriel Prosser's 1800 conspiracy, and the 1811 German coast slave revolt -- Denmark Vesey's 1822 conspiracy and Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt -- Slavery, the press, and America's transformation, 1831-59 -- John Brown's "Greatest or principal object" -- From madman to martyr : John Brown's transformation in the northern antislavery press -- Media discourses about slavery -- Dealing with slavery's enemies -- A racial panic -- Maintaining slavery -- Slavery divides the nation -- Slavery's immorality and destruction of civil liberties -- Slavery destroys freedom of the press -- The press and slavery's legacy.

ISBN:

1611176034
9781611176032

OCLC:

(OCoLC)923665342

LCCN:

2015022521

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)