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BL
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586118
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b415337
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| Main Entry
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DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
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| Title & Author
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Slavery on trial : : law, abolitionism, and print culture /\ Jeannine Marie DeLombard
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, c2007
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| Series Statement
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Studies in legal history
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xiv, 330 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780807830864 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0807830860 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780807858127 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0807858129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-307) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion : All done brown at last : illustrating Harpers Ferry
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| Subject
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Slavery-- Law and legislation-- United States-- History, Sources
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Slavery-- United States-- History, Sources
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Slavery in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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342.7308/7
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| LC Classification
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KF4545.S5D45 2007
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