Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Cen
β Julie Husband (auth.)
π Library
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2010
π Palgrave Macmillan US
π English
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Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Incendiary Pictures
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- Palgrave Macmillan
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- 2010
- Tongue
- English
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- 175
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- 1
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Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of βfree laborβ in mid-nineteenth-century America.Β Husband shows how the images of families split apart by slavery, circulated primarily by women leaders, proved to be the most powerful weapon in the antislavery cultural campaign and ultimately turned the nation against slavery.Β She also reveals the ways in which the sentimental narratives and icons that constituted the βfamily protection campaignβ powerfully influenced Americansβ sense of the role of government, gender, and race in industrializing America. Chapters examine the writings of ardent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, non-activist sympathizers, and those actively hostile to but deeply immersed in antislavery activism including Nathaniel Hawthorne.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part 1 Central Feminist Abolitionists and the Wage Labor System......Page 24
1 The Emergence of the Family Protection Campaign and Antislavery Sentimentality......Page 26
2 Anticipating Progressive Era Reformers: Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State......Page 36
Part 2 Adaptations of the Antislavery Family Protection Campaign......Page 56
3 Marketplace Politics in The Scarlet Letter......Page 58
4 The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace: E.D.E.N. Southworth's Southern Reforms......Page 78
5 "The White Slave of the North": Lowell Mill Women and the Evolution of "Free Labor"......Page 98
Part 3 The End of Antislavery Sentimentality......Page 126
6 Frederick Douglass's Post-Civil War Performance of Masculinity......Page 128
Notes......Page 144
Works Cited......Page 160
D......Page 172
I......Page 173
S......Page 174
Y......Page 175
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