The press and slavery in America, 1791-1859 : : the melancholy effect of popular excitement / / Brian Gabrial.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Columbia, South Carolina : : The University of South Carolina Press,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.