Abolition´s publich sphere

This book seeks to demonstrate how abolitionist public discourse sought to reenact eighteenth-century scenarios of revolution and democracy in the antebellum era. I. The sedition of Nonresistance, II. Garrisonism and the Public Body, III. Frederick Douglass´s Public Body, IV. Hall: The civic institution of the imaginary, V: Thoreau´s civic imagination, VI. Douglass´s Sublime: the Art of the Slave.