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The press and slavery in America, 1791-1859 [electronic resource] :the melancholy effect of popular excitement / Brian Gabrial.

By: Gabrial, Brian.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781611176049; 1611176042.Subject(s): American newspapers -- History -- 19th century | Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Mass media and race relations -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Mass media and public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Antislavery movements -- United States -- Periodicals -- History -- 19th century | Antislavery movements -- Press coverage -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Slavery -- Press coverage -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 071/.3 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Racism and slavery in America -- The press and slave troubles in America -- Haiti in 1791, Gabriel Prosser's 1800 conspiracy, and the 1811 German coast slave revolt -- Denmark Vesey's 1822 conspiracy and Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt -- Slavery, the press, and America's transformation, 1831-59 -- John Brown's "Greatest or principal object" -- From madman to martyr : John Brown's transformation in the northern antislavery press -- Media discourses about slavery -- Dealing with slavery's enemies -- A racial panic -- Maintaining slavery -- Slavery divides the nation -- Slavery's immorality and destruction of civil liberties -- Slavery destroys freedom of the press -- The press and slavery's legacy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Racism and slavery in America -- The press and slave troubles in America -- Haiti in 1791, Gabriel Prosser's 1800 conspiracy, and the 1811 German coast slave revolt -- Denmark Vesey's 1822 conspiracy and Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt -- Slavery, the press, and America's transformation, 1831-59 -- John Brown's "Greatest or principal object" -- From madman to martyr : John Brown's transformation in the northern antislavery press -- Media discourses about slavery -- Dealing with slavery's enemies -- A racial panic -- Maintaining slavery -- Slavery divides the nation -- Slavery's immorality and destruction of civil liberties -- Slavery destroys freedom of the press -- The press and slavery's legacy.

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