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 abolitionist novel to focus on racial prejudice rather than bondage as a social evil, Beaumont's work was also the first to link prejudice against Native Americans to prejudice against blacks. This translation, with a new introduction by Gerard Fergerson, provides modern readers with interesting insights into the inconsistencies and injustices of democratic Jacksonian society.
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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.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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This book was written as a novel to keep Abe Lincoln from arresting the author, as he was wanton to do during the Civil War years. It is full of historical facts that make it a book of special study and not general reading. It is well written, easily understandable and needs to be read with other Civi War books. This is what I used it for. It provides another view.
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In his 1938 biography of M. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), George Wilson Pierson establishes the powerfull influence of Tocqueville's lifelong friend and fellow lawyer, Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866), on the conclusions advanced in Democracy in America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, New England, Native Americans, Great Lakes, John Mulon, New Orleans, Supreme Court, James Williams, Oxford University Press, Alexis de Tocqueville, Jacksonian America, Lake Erie, Fort Gratiot, North America, Theresa Spencer, General Jackson, Henry Clay, Louis Philippe, North River, Presbyterian Church, Santo Domingo New!
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In his 1938 biography of M. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), George Wilson Pierson establishes the powerfull influence of Tocqueville's lifelong friend and fellow lawyer, Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866), on the conclusions advanced in Democracy in America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, New England, Native Americans, Great Lakes, John Mulon, New Orleans, Supreme Court, James Williams, Oxford University Press, Alexis de Tocqueville, Jacksonian America, Lake Erie, Fort Gratiot, North America, Theresa Spencer, General Jackson, Henry Clay, Louis Philippe, North River, Presbyterian Church, Santo Domingo New!
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- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville on page 1, page 3, and page 4
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville on page 1, page 3, and page 4
- Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist by Hazel V. Carby on page 4, and page 8
- Tocqueville in America by George Wilson Pierson on page 1, and page 12
- The Cholera Years: The United States in the Years 1832, 1849 and 1866 by Charles E. Rosenberg on page 6
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- The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 2: Prose Writing, 1820-1865 by Sacvan Bercovitch on page 286, and Index
- Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality by Paul Goodman on page 238, and Back Matter
- The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750-1990 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication) by Richard Butsch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- 1831: Year of Eclipse by Louis P. Masur in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture) by Eric Lott in Back Matter
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