Marie or, Slavery in the United States

A Novel of Jacksonian America

AvGustave de Beaumont

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

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. This translation, with a new introduction by Gerard Fergerson, provides modern readers with interesting insights into the inconsistencies and injustices of democratic Jacksonian society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-03-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:397 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Race in the Americas
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801860645
Översättare:Barbara Chapman

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Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

Beaumont's chef-d'oeuvre was, and has remained, illuminating . . . It follows that to readers of the present work the book of 1835 will seem strangely and wonderfully familiar . . . Marie will be a book of echoes.—George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville in America

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction, 1999, by Gerard FergersonPublisher's NoteIntroduction, by Alvis L. TinninForeword, by Gustave de BeaumontChapter 1. PrologueChapter 2. American WomenChapter 3. Ludovic, of the Departure From EuropeChapter 4. An American FamilyChapter 5. MarieChapter 6. The Baltimore AlmshouseChapter 7. The MysteryChapter 8. The RevelationChapter 9. The TestChapter 10. Continuation of the TestChapter 11. The Test: Episode of OnedaChapter 12. The Test: Literature and Fine ArtsChapter 13. The RiotChapter 14. Departure from Civilized AmericaChapter 15. The Virgin Forest and the WildernessChapter 16. The TragedyChapter 17. EpilogueAppendixes:A. Note on the Social and Political Condition of the Negro Salves and of Free People of ColorB. Note on American WomenC. Note on American AnglophobiaD. Notes on Blue LawsE. Note on the Indulgence of American Society to BankruptsF. Note on Polygamy Among American IndiansG. Note on American SociabilityH. Note on American CrudenessI. Note on Equality in American SocietyJ. Note on American TheatersK. Note on the Present Condition of the Indian Tribes of North AmericaL. Note on the New York Race Riots of 1834