Abolition's public sphere / Robert Fanuzzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fanuzzi, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Antislavery movements--Public relations--United States.

Antislavery movements--United States--Public opinion.

Publicity--History--19th century.

Publicity.

Public opinion--United States--History--19th century.

Public opinion.

Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century.

Abolitionists.

Protest literature, American--History and criticism.

Protest literature, American.

Material culture--United States--History--19th century.

Material culture.

Political culture--United States--History--19th century.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xl, 331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: The Lessons of Repeated Experienceb

The Sedition of Nonresistance

Garrisonism and the Public Sphere

Frederick Douglass's Public Body

Faneuil Hall: The Civic Institution of the Imaginary

Thoreau's Civic Imagination

Douglass's Sublime: The Art of the Slave

Conclusion: A Cosmopolitan Point of View.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-317) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9447-8

OCLC:

476095334