In the Shadow of the Gallows

Auteur: DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
Editeur: University of Pennsylvania Press
In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.

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In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.
ISBN / EAN 9780812223170
Auteur DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
Editeur University of Pennsylvania Press