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4 “Merely Public Opinion in Legal Forms”

Imagining Native and African Americans in the Public and Political Spheres

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. A Note on Terminology xiii
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1 “Causes of Alarm to Our Whole Country” 16
  7. 2 “A Right to Speak on the Subject” 52
  8. 3 “The Difference between Cruelty to the Slave, and Cruelty to the Indian” 87
  9. 4 “Merely Public Opinion in Legal Forms” 114
  10. 5 “On the Very Eve of Coming Out” 160
  11. 6 “Coming from One Who Has a Right to Speak” 203
  12. Notes 245
  13. Index 281
Their Right to Speak
This chapter is in the book Their Right to Speak
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042223-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. A Note on Terminology xiii
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1 “Causes of Alarm to Our Whole Country” 16
  7. 2 “A Right to Speak on the Subject” 52
  8. 3 “The Difference between Cruelty to the Slave, and Cruelty to the Indian” 87
  9. 4 “Merely Public Opinion in Legal Forms” 114
  10. 5 “On the Very Eve of Coming Out” 160
  11. 6 “Coming from One Who Has a Right to Speak” 203
  12. Notes 245
  13. Index 281
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