Fanuzzi, Robert.
Abolition’s Public Sphere. - 1 online resource (374 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Lessons of Repeated Experience -- 1. The Sedition of Nonresistance -- 2. Garrisonism and the Public Sphere -- 3. Frederick Douglass's Public Body -- 4. Faneuil Hall: The Civic Institution of the Imaginary -- 5. Thoreau's Civic Imagination -- 6. Douglass's Sublime: The Art of the Slave -- Conclusion: A Cosmopolitan Point of View -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
Robert Fanuzzi illustrates how the dissemination of abolitionist tracts served to create an "imaginary public" that promoted and provoked the discussion of slavery. He critically examines the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and their massive abolition publicity campaign geared to an audience of white male citizens, free black noncitizens, women, and the enslaved.
9780816694471
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- Public relations -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Public opinion.
Protest literature, American -- History and criticism.
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Publicity -- History -- 19th century.
Electronic books.
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326/.8/0973
Abolition’s Public Sphere. - 1 online resource (374 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Lessons of Repeated Experience -- 1. The Sedition of Nonresistance -- 2. Garrisonism and the Public Sphere -- 3. Frederick Douglass's Public Body -- 4. Faneuil Hall: The Civic Institution of the Imaginary -- 5. Thoreau's Civic Imagination -- 6. Douglass's Sublime: The Art of the Slave -- Conclusion: A Cosmopolitan Point of View -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
Robert Fanuzzi illustrates how the dissemination of abolitionist tracts served to create an "imaginary public" that promoted and provoked the discussion of slavery. He critically examines the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and their massive abolition publicity campaign geared to an audience of white male citizens, free black noncitizens, women, and the enslaved.
9780816694471
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- Public relations -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Public opinion.
Protest literature, American -- History and criticism.
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Publicity -- History -- 19th century.
Electronic books.
E449 -- .F16 2003eb
326/.8/0973