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Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
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Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.330 pp. $65.00/$24.95 paper.
Recent scholarship by Laura Korobkin, Gregg Crane, and Stephen Best has established how thoroughly legal thought permeated antebellum culture and has perceptively demonstrated the range of literary texts that grappled with the gap between the nation's ideals and its problematic legal practices. Jeannine DeLombard's insightful Slavery on Trial underscores the idea that there remains much to uncover in the intersections of law and literature in nineteenth-century America. DeLombard's title alludes to the fact that slavery was ...
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