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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
(2022)
the writing of certain Antebellum writers who articulated their concerns about slavery presents a unique opportunity to see their resistance of slavery as an indictment of human-made or positive law that allowed government to violate individuals’ natural...
Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
(2013)
By the time Samuel Clemens began writing journalism and crafting what he
called the “sensation hoax” for Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise in 1862, Americans
had been devouring sensational novels and journalism by ...