Selling Antislavery - Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America

Featuring more than 75 illustrations, Selling Antislavery offers a thorough case study of the role of reform movements in the rise of mass media and argues for abolition's central importance to the shaping of antebellum middle-class culture.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Antislavery Inc.

Part I. Antislavery Print Culture

Chapter 2. Summing Up Slavery: The Antislavery Almanac and the Production of Fact

Chapter 3. The African American Slave Narrative as Factual Compendium

Part II. Antislavery Material Culture

Chapter 4. Speaking Objects: Antislavery Fairs and Sentimental Consumerism

Chapter 5. Antislavery Fairs and the Culture of Class

Part III. Antislavery Visual Culture

Chapter 6. Antislavery's Panoramic Perspective

Chapter 7. Fugitive Sight: African American Panoramas of Slavery and Freedom

Conclusion. The American Anti-Slavery Society Celebrates Its Third Decade

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Teresa A. Goddu

Summary

Featuring more than 75 illustrations, Selling Antislavery offers a thorough case study of the role of reform movements in the rise of mass media and argues for abolition's central importance to the shaping of antebellum middle-class culture.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa A Goddu, Teresa A. Goddu
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2020
• EAN: 9780812251999
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5199-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Material Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology