The Fugitive Slave Law in the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin : American society transforms its culture /
Del Guercio, Gerardo, 1977-
The Fugitive Slave Law in the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin : American society transforms its culture / Gerardo Del Guercio ; with a foreword by Robert T. Tally, Jr. - Lewiston, N.Y. : The Edwin Mellen Press, ©2013. - 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.
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.
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.
9780773444096 (electronic bk.) 0773444092 (electronic bk.)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850)
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave (Douglass, Frederick)
Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher)
1800-1899
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Slavery in literature.
Law and literature--History--United States--19th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
LAW--Constitutional.
LAW--Public.
American literature.
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.
Law and literature.
Slavery in literature.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
KF4545.S5 / G84 2013eb
342.7308/7
The Fugitive Slave Law in the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin : American society transforms its culture / Gerardo Del Guercio ; with a foreword by Robert T. Tally, Jr. - Lewiston, N.Y. : The Edwin Mellen Press, ©2013. - 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.
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.
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.
9780773444096 (electronic bk.) 0773444092 (electronic bk.)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850)
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave (Douglass, Frederick)
Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher)
1800-1899
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Slavery in literature.
Law and literature--History--United States--19th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
LAW--Constitutional.
LAW--Public.
American literature.
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.
Law and literature.
Slavery in literature.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
KF4545.S5 / G84 2013eb
342.7308/7