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.

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.

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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.

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