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1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Summary |
This book shows how abolitionists used rhetoric and discourse, rather than violence, to change opinions about slavery. Books like Uncle Tom's Cabin incite people to take action and they provoke a sense of urgency about the matter. Less than a decade before an impending civil war the United States enacted the Compromise of 1850, which among other things revived the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 in a more aggravated form. The main stipulation of the law was to impose strict monetary and legal penalties against those who aided the escape or impeded the capture of fugitive slaves. Frederick Douglass. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
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Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850) |
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave (Douglass, Frederick) |
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Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher) |
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Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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United States. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Law and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Law and literature. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Guercio, Gerardo Del. Fugitive Slave Law in the life of Frederick Douglass. Lewiston, N.Y. : The Edwin Mellen Press, ©2013 9780773445185 (DLC) 2012044444 (OCoLC)816655693 |
| ISBN |
9780773444096 (electronic book) |
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0773444092 (electronic book) |
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9780773445185 |
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0773445188 |
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