Abolitionist Geographies

by Martha Schoolman

Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816680752
• ISBN13: 9780816680757
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"