Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-198) and index.
Contents
Democratic discourses: visiting the national anti-slavery bazaar -- Bodily democracy: Frances Ellen Watkins and Walt Whitman sing the body electric -- Gender democracy: Margaret Fuller and Sojourner Truth argue the case of woman versus women -- Economic democracy: Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau negotiate the Mason-Dixon line -- Aesthetic democracy: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs represent the end(s) of slavery.
