Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Incendiary Pictures

by Julie Husband

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Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America. Husband shows how the images of families split apart by slavery, circulated primarily by women leaders, proved to be the most powerful weapon in the antislavery cultural campaign and ultimately turned the nation against slavery. She also reveals the ways...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349383449

ISBN13:9781349383443

Release Date:November 2015

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:158 Pages

Weight:0.46 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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