Marie Or, Slavery in the United States

Marie Or, Slavery in the United States
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0801860644
ISBN-13 : 9780801860645
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Book Synopsis Marie Or, Slavery in the United States by : Gustave de Beaumont

Download or read book Marie Or, Slavery in the United States written by Gustave de Beaumont and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustave de Beaumont's 1835 work, Marie, or Slavery in the United States is structured as a fascinating essay on race interwoven with a novel. It is the story of socially forbidden love between an idealistic young Frenchman and an apparently white American woman with African ancestry. The couple's idealism fades as they repeatedly face racial prejudice and violence, and are eventually forced to seek shelter among exiled Cherokee people. Notable as the first abolitionist novel to focus on racial prejudice rather than bondage as a social evil, Beaumont's work was also the first to link prejudice against Native Americans to prejudice against blacks. This translation, with a new introduction by Gerard Fergerson, provides modern readers with interesting insights into the inconsistencies and injustices of democratic Jacksonian society.


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