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Marie or, Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America

By Gustave de Beaumont, Barbara Chapman (Translator), Gerard Fergerson (Introduction)
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By Gustave de Beaumont, Barbara Chapman (Translator), Gerard Fergerson (Introduction)
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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 rac...

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