[PDF.95xo] Marie or, Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America (Race in the Americas)

Marie or, Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America (Race in the Americas)

[PDF.lw90] Marie or, Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America (Race in the Americas)

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 | #287186 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  1998-12-10 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.61 x6.00l,.87 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Supplements Tocqueville|By Oskar|Recognizing when this was written and that the writer was a friend and travel companion of A. de Tocqueville I got this to see his impression of the US in the early 1800s. His view is much different than we usually get in our standard history courses. It is very valuable to get of feeling of the life in the US at the time and the general condi| ||"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 Tocquev

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. Notable as the first abo...

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