Title The Fugitive Slave Law in the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin : American society transforms its culture / Gerardo Del Guercio ; with a foreword by Robert T. Tally, Jr

Published Lewiston, N.Y. : The Edwin Mellen Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages) Contents The Fugitive Slave Law in Antebellum America : American culture transforms itself -- Frederick Douglass' 1845 narrative -- interpreting barriers and identity -- Education in the 1845 narrative -- resistance, literacy, and abolition -- Douglass' eternal struggle -- place, space, and identity -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- genre, protest, and identity -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- the feminization of American abolitionism -- The next generation -- radical emancipation and Antebellum America Summary This book shows how abolitionists used rhetoric and discourse, rather than violence, to change opinions about slavery. Books like Uncle Tom's Cabin incite people to take action and they provoke a sense of urgency about the matter. Less than a decade before an impending civil war the United States enacted the Compromise of 1850, which among other things revived the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 in a more aggravated form. The main stipulation of the law was to impose strict monetary and legal penalties against those who aided the escape or impeded the capture of fugitive slaves. Frederick Douglass Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index Notes Print version record Subject Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin. United States. Fugitive slave law (1850) SUBJECT Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850) fast Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave (Douglass, Frederick) fast Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher) fast Subject Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States Slavery in literature. Law and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism LAW -- Constitutional. LAW -- Public. American literature Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. Law and literature Slavery in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773444096 0773444092

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