Teresa A Goddu

Selling Antislavery

Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America

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Produktbeschreibung

Featuring more than 75 illustrations, Selling Antislavery offers a thorough case study of the role of reform movements in the rise of mass media and argues for abolition's central importance to the shaping of antebellum middle-class culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251999
• ISBN-10: 0812251997
• Artikelnr.: 59472992

Autorenporträt

Teresa A. Goddu is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University and author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Antislavery Inc.
Part I. Antislavery Print Culture
Chapter 2. Summing Up Slavery: The Antislavery Almanac and the Production
of Fact
Chapter 3. The African American Slave Narrative as Factual Compendium
Part II. Antislavery Material Culture
Chapter 4. Speaking Objects: Antislavery Fairs and Sentimental Consumerism
Chapter 5. Antislavery Fairs and the Culture of Class
Part III. Antislavery Visual Culture
Chapter 6. Antislavery's Panoramic Perspective
Chapter 7. Fugitive Sight: African American Panoramas of Slavery and
Freedom
Conclusion. The American Anti-Slavery Society Celebrates Its Third Decade
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments