Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.
Contents:
The Fugitive Slave Law in Antebellum America : American culture transforms itself -- Frederick Douglass' 1845 narrative -- interpreting barriers and identity -- Education in the 1845 narrative -- resistance, literacy, and abolition -- Douglass' eternal struggle -- place, space, and identity -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- genre, protest, and identity -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- the feminization of American abolitionism -- The next generation -- radical emancipation and Antebellum America.
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