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 - Hardcover

Del Guercio, Gerardo

9780773445185: 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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773445188 ISBN 13: 9780773445185

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr, 2013

This book explores the implications of the Fugitive Slave Law ans the impact that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe had during Antebellum America, arguing that Douglass and Stowe used language instead of violence to convince Americans to break the Law and that not all Americans agreed with this law.

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Review:

"We can finally see the captivating force of literature and politics in a signal moment of human history, and we see that these powers remain momentous in our own time." (Prof. Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University) "Both writers subscribe to the universal law of our common humanity and this book traces their efforts to win the hearts and minds of nineteenth-century readers." (Prof. Marilyn Walker, National Technical Institute for the Deaf)"

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