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Against the Gallows
- Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 242
- Published:
- August 29, 2011
- Dimensions:
- 229x152x15 mm.
Delivery:
2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: July 18, 2025
Description of Against the Gallows
Explores the intriguing cooperation of America's writers-including major figures such as Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and Herman Melville-with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and periodical editors who attempted to end the practice of capital punishment in the US during the 1840s and 1850s.
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