Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing by Jennifer Greiman

Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing

Jennifer Greiman

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"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's accomplice?" Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child arti...

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