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Buffington, Nancy. "From Freedom to Slavery: Robert Montgomery Bird and the Natural Law Tradition," Department of English, University of Arizona, November 1998.
This dissertation explicates the rhetoric of liberty and slavery in the novels of Robert Montgomery Bird (1805-54), a prominent Philadelphian doctor, playwright, novelist and Whig Journalist, in relation to the natural law tradition and antebellum political discourses surrounding the debates over slavery, Indian policy, and national expansion. Despite repeated scenes of unjust captivity and justified rebellion from the Spanish conquest of Mexico to Southern slavery, Bird’s patriotic novels deny the rights they invoke, turning a platform of natural freedom into one of natural subjection. I substantiate my conclusions with original research from Bird’s manuscripts, notebooks, letters and political journalism.
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