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Abolitionist Geographies
Martha Schoolman
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Description for Abolitionist Geographies
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. Through the idiom Schoolman names abolitionist geography, these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of the internal slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law by appealing to ... Read more
Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. Through the idiom Schoolman names abolitionist geography, these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of the internal slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law by appealing to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
339g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816680757
SKU
V9780816680757
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About Martha Schoolman
Martha Schoolman teaches in the English Department at Dickinson College. She is coeditor of the essay collection Abolitionist Places.
Reviews for Abolitionist Geographies
Whatever else it does in relation to the historiography of antebellum abolition - and indeed it does much - Schoolman's book teaches us to see this reopening of abolitionist time as an opening of abolitionist space as well. -Antipode Martha Schoolman's Abolitionist Geographies is a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship that explores connections ... Read more