Cross-racial class protest in antebellum American literature [electronic resource] / Timothy Helwig.

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Cross-racial class protest in antebellum American literature [electronic resource] / Timothy Helwig.

9781613767429 (electronic book)
1613767420 (electronic book)
9781625344960
1625344961
9781625344977
162534497X

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]

English

1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations.

PS217.W66 H37 2020

810.9/355

"Historians have long claimed that the antebellum white working class viewed blacks, both free and slave, not as allies but enemies. While it is true that racial and ethnic strife among northern workers prevented an effective labor movement from materializing in America prior to the Civil War, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature demonstrates that a considerable subset of white and black writers were able to imagine cross-racial solidarity in the sensation novels and serial fiction, slave narratives, autobiographies, speeches, and newspaper editorials that they penned. Timothy Helwig analyzes the shared strategies of class protest in popular and canonical texts from a range of antebellum white and black American authors, including George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Harry Hazel, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb. This pathbreaking study offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding of black and white authors' strivings for socioeconomic justice across racial lines in the years leading up to the Civil War" Provided by publisher

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