{"product_id":"abolition-s-public-sphere-1","title":"Abolition’s Public Sphere","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn innovative analysis of the Enlightenment’s effects on the anti-slavery movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEchoes of Thomas Paine and Enlightenment thought resonate throughout the abolitionist movement and in the efforts of its leaders to create an antislavery reading public. In \u003cem\u003eAbolition’s Public Sphere\u003c\/em\u003e Robert Fanuzzi critically examines the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and their massive abolition publicity campaign—pamphlets, newspapers, petitions, and public gatherings—geared to an audience of white male citizens, free black noncitizens, women, and the enslaved. Including provocative readings of Thoreau’s \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e and of the symbolic space of Boston’s Faneuil Hall, \u003cem\u003eAbolition’s Public Sphere \u003c\/em\u003edemonstrates how abolitionist public discourse sought to reenact eighteenth-century scenarios of revolution and democracy in the antebellum era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFanuzzi illustrates how the dissemination of abolitionist tracts served to create an “imaginary public” that promoted and provoked the discussion of slavery. However, by embracing Enlightenment abstractions of liberty, reason, and progress, Fanuzzi argues, abolitionist strategy introduced aesthetic concerns that challenged political institutions of the public sphere and prevailing notions of citizenship. Insightful and thought-provoking, \u003cem\u003eAbolition’s Public Sphere\u003c\/em\u003e questions standard versions of abolitionist history and, in the process, our understanding of democracy itself.","brand":"Robert Fanuzzi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616360980860,"sku":"9780816640904","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_915bbe1a-9cde-40c1-8413-60a1e74f8fca.jpg?v=1746711703","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/abolition-s-public-sphere-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}