Selling Antislavery : : Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America / / Teresa A. Goddu.

A richly illustrated history of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its print, material, and visual artifactsBeginning with its establishment in the early 1830s, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) recognized the need to reach and consolidate a diverse and increasingly segmented audience. To...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 78 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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