Watching Slavery : Witness Texts and Travel

How did witnesses of slavery relate their experiences and what effect did their reports have? This book examines travel accounts, fictions, poetry, and legal texts to analyze direct and indirect encounters with slavery in the antebellum United States. It

Joe Lockard is Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University and directs the Antislavery Literature Project.

List of Figures
Southland Dispassions of Thackeray and Dickens	p. 1
Reform Travel: Passions of Harriet Martineau	p. 37
Whittier's Armchair Travel and Southern Apocalypse	p. 69
Judicial Witness: Justice Story and the Prigg Decision	p. 95
William Still and the Fugitive Encyclopedia	p. 129
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 203
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Watching Slavery : Witness Texts and Travel Reports

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