ISBN:
9780807830864
,
0807858129
,
9780807858127
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 330 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Studies in legal history
Dissertation note:
Teilw. zugl.: Pennsylvania, Univ., Diss.
DDC:
342.73087
Keywords:
Slavery Sources Law and legislation
;
History
;
Slavery Sources History
;
Slavery in literature
;
Hochschulschrift
;
USA
;
Sklaverei
;
Öffentliche Meinung
;
Öffentlichkeit
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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