Slavery on trial

Description:

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.

subjects: History,  Law and legislation,  Slavery,  Slavery in literature,  Sources,  Slavery, law and legislation, united states,  Slavery, united states, history,  LAW,  Constitutional,  Public,  19th Century,  Abolitionismus,  Sklaverei,  Sklave,  Literatur

Places: United States