Marie or, Slavery in the United States A Novel of Jacksonian America

Name: Marie or, Slavery in the United States A Novel of Jacksonian America
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ISBN: 9780801860645

ISBN-10: 0801860644

ISBN-13: 9780801860645

Edition: 1999

Authors: Gustave de Beaumont, Barbara Chapman, Gerard Fergerson

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"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 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.…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.77" wide x 8.94" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English