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Marie Or, Slavery in the United States
A Novel of Jacksonian America
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Artikel-Nr:
9780801860645
Veröffentl:
1998
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.12.1998
Seiten:
292
Autor:
Gustave De Beaumont
Gewicht:
478 g
Format:
229x152x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) is primarily remembered as Alexis de Tocqueville's travel companion and literary executor. He was co-author, with Tocqueville, of On the Penitentiary System in the United States.
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.