Abolitionist Geographies Schoolman Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780816680757

Abolitionist GeographiesAuthor(s): Martha Schoolman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816680757, 978-0816680757\nSynopsis\nTraditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. \n\nThrough the idiom Schoolman names abolitionist geography, these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of the internal slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law by appealing to other anachronistic, partial, or entirely fictional northsouth and eastwest axes. Abolitionis.