{"product_id":"abolitionist-geographies-martha-schoolman-9780816680757","title":"Abolitionist Geographies","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In \u003ci\u003eAbolitionist Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the idiom Schoolman names \"abolitionist geography,\" these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of the internal slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law by appealing to other anachronistic, partial, or entirely fictional north-south and east-west axes. Abolitionism's West, for instance, rarely reached beyond the Mississippi River, but its East looked to Britain for ideological inspiration, its North habitually traversed the Canadian border, and its South often spanned the geopolitical divide between the United States and the British Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchoolman traces this geography of dissent through the work of Martin Delany, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Her book explores new relationships between New England transcendentalism and the British West Indies; African-American cosmopolitanism, Britain, and Haiti; sentimental fiction, Ohio, and Liberia; John Brown's Appalachia and circum-Caribbean \u003ci\u003emarronage\u003c\/i\u003e. These connections allow us to see clearly for the first time abolitionist literature's explicit and intentional investment in geography as an idiom of political critique, by turns liberal and radical, practical and utopian. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha Schoolman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816680752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816680757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.55h x 5.80w x 0.60d","brand":"Martha Schoolman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47072025116927,"sku":"9780816680757","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c6c1f10-6597-46ee-91d6-eddb7433cd88.jpg?v=1753415590","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/abolitionist-geographies-martha-schoolman-9780816680757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}