Jeannine Marie Delombard: 2 books
Slavery on Trial
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery...
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing...