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1 - A Rhetorical Continuum? How Representations of Antebellum Slavery Endure in Post-War Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2020

Catherine Armstrong
Affiliation:
Loughborough University
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This chapter argues that there was a rhetorical continuum between ante and post-bellum descriptions of slavery in US popular culture as the legacies and memories of ‘old slavery days’ and abolitionism were the most significant points of comparison used by authors trying to delimit and understand mutable post-bellum slavery.

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American Slavery, American Imperialism
US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914
, pp. 28 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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