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Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Race Citizenship and Law in American Literature - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Author:Gregg D. Crane Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression are evil. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frede... more »rick Douglass, and a range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this original book will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature.« less