Selling antislavery abolition and mass media in antebellum America

"Selling Antislavery maps the vast media archive generated by institutional antislavery in the antebellum era. By paying particular attention to the movement's foundational phase in the 1830s-when the American Anti-Slavery Society was at the height of its organizational powers and before i...

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1. Verfasser: Goddu, Teresa A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:"Selling Antislavery maps the vast media archive generated by institutional antislavery in the antebellum era. By paying particular attention to the movement's foundational phase in the 1830s-when the American Anti-Slavery Society was at the height of its organizational powers and before it splintered into warring factions in 1840-Selling Antislavery locates the emergence of abolitionist mass media in an earlier era and traces that period's influence on subsequent decades. In providing the prehistory of Uncle Tom's Cabin, it shows how Stowe's novel and related products mark the apex rather than the birth of antislavery mass media"--
Beschreibung:viii, 299 Seiten
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25 cm
ISBN:9780812251999
978-0-8122-5199-9