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

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007].
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : illustrations.
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Series	Studies in legal history
	Studies in legal history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Summary	The author examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to 'try' the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media.
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Subject	Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources.
	Slavery -- Law and legislation.
	United States.
	History.
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
	Slavery.
	Slavery in literature.
	Slavery in literature.
Genre/Form	Sources.
	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: DeLombard, Jeannine Marie. Slavery on trial. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007 9780807830864 (DLC) 2006036296 (OCoLC)74965063
ISBN	9780807887738 (electronic book)
	0807887730 (electronic book)
	9781469605791 (electronic book)
	1469605791 (electronic book)
	9780807830864 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0807830860 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780807858127 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0807858129 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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