UID:
almahu_9948326669402882
Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9781611176049 (e-book)
Note:
Racism and slavery in America -- The press and slave troubles in America -- Haiti in 1791, Gabriel Prosser's 1800 conspiracy, and the 1811 German coast slave revolt -- Denmark Vesey's 1822 conspiracy and Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt -- Slavery, the press, and America's transformation, 1831-59 -- John Brown's "Greatest or principal object" -- From madman to martyr : John Brown's transformation in the northern antislavery press -- Media discourses about slavery -- Dealing with slavery's enemies -- A racial panic -- Maintaining slavery -- Slavery divides the nation -- Slavery's immorality and destruction of civil liberties -- Slavery destroys freedom of the press -- The press and slavery's legacy.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Gabrial, Brian. Press and slavery in America, 1791-1859 : the melancholy effect of popular excitement. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2016] ISBN 9781611176032
Language:
English
Keywords:
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