Her voice will be on the side of right gender and power in women's antebellum antislavery fiction

Her voice will be on the side of right gender and power in women's antebellum antislavery fiction / Holly M. Kent.

Decades before the Civil War, the free American public was gripped by increasingly acrimonious debates about the nation's "peculiar institution" of slavery. Ministers considered the morality of slavery from their pulpits, legislators debated it in the halls of government, professors d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kent, Holly M., 1981- (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Sex role in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction
American fiction > Women authors
Antislavery movements in literature
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Sex role in literature
Slavery in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Her heart was touched with the wrongs of the injured ones"
  • "An influence comparatively silent, but deep, and strong, and irresistible"
  • "They did not relinquish freedom without a struggle"
  • "We women will set all things right"
  • Conclusion.

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