Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Incendiary Pictures

by Julie Husband

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230621481
• ISBN13: 9780230621480
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"