Slavery on trial law, abolitionism, and print culture /
The author examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal labguage to 'try' the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media.
Main Author: | DeLombard, Jeannine Marie |
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Corporate Author: | JSTOR books |
Format: | Online Book |
Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2007.
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Series: | Studies in legal history.
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