 | In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity Subjects: African Americans in literature -- History and criticism; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Race identity -- History; African Americans -- Legal status laws etc -- History; Crime and race -- U; In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging. Jeannine Marie DeLombard is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Slavery on Trial: Law, Print, and Abolitionism. |
