Marie Or, Slavery in the United States - A Novel of Jacksonian America

Informationen zum Autor Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) is primarily remembered as Alexis de Tocqueville's travel companion and literary executor. He was co-author, with Tocqueville, of On the Penitentiary System in the United States . Klappentext Gustave de Beaumont's 1835 work, Marie, or Slavery in the United States is structured as a fascinating essay on race interwoven with a novel. It is the story of socially forbidden love between an idealistic young Frenchman and an apparently white American woman with African ancestry. The couple's idealism fades as they repeatedly face racial prejudice and violence, and are eventually forced to seek shelter among exiled Cherokee people. Notable as the first abolitionist novel to focus on racial prejudice rather than bondage as a social evil, Beaumont's work was also the first to link prejudice against Native Americans to prejudice against blacks.

Product details

• Authors: Gustave Beaumont, Gustave De Beaumont, Gustave De Beaumont
• Assisted by: Barbara Chapman (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.1999
• EAN: 9780801860645
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6064-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Race in the Americas; Race in the Americas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Europa, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, FICTION / Classics, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, HISTORY / United States / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism