The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature - Michael T. Gilmore - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226101699 - December 6, 2013
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The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature

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Argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South.


344 pages, 1 halftone

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 6, 2013
ISBN13 9780226101699
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 340
Dimensions 227 × 152 × 22 mm   ·   526 g

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