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Marie, or, Slavery in the United States : a novel of Jacksonian America / Gustave de Beaumont ; translated from the French by Barbara Chapman ; with a new introduction by Gerard Fergerson.
- Title
- Marie, or, Slavery in the United States : a novel of Jacksonian America / Gustave de Beaumont ; translated from the French by Barbara Chapman ; with a new introduction by Gerard Fergerson.
- Author
- Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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Details
- Description
- xxxv, 252 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 American Indians 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Race in the Americas
- Uniform Title
- Marie. English
- Race in the Americas
- Alternative Title
- Marie.
- Marie
- Slavery in the United States
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Slavery > United States > History > 19th century
- Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions
- Enslaved women > United States > Social conditions
- Slavery > Fiction
- Enslaved persons > Fiction
- Race relations > Fiction
- Enslaved women > Fiction
- Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales
- Femmes esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales
- Esclaves > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Relations raciales > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Femmes esclaves > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Race relations
- Slavery
- Enslaved persons
- Enslaved persons > Social conditions
- Enslaved women
- Enslaved women > Social conditions
- United States > Race relations
- États-Unis > Relations raciales
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Romans.
- Note
- Originally published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1958.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0801860644
- 9780801860645
- LCCN
- 98031234
- OCLC
- 39936810
- SCSB-12326597
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library