Slavery on trial : law, abolitionism, and print culture

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

Author/creator	DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Description	xiv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Slavery--Law and legislation --United States --History --Sources. Slavery--United States --History --Sources. Slavery in literature.

Series	Studies in legal history Studies in legal history. ^A58211
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-307) and index.
LCCN	2006036296
ISBN	9780807830864 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807830860 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780807858127 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807858129 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	KF4545.S5 D45 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold