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Slavery on Trial

by Jeannine Marie DeLombard

The author examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal labguage to 'try' the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media.

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HistoryLaw and legislationSlaverySlavery in literatureSourcesSlavery, law and legislation, united statesSlavery, united states, historyLAWConstitutionalPublic

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