Marie, ou l’esclavage aux États-Unis

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Marie, ou l’esclavage aux États-Unis is a 19th-century French novel that denounces American slavery through a tragic love story and social critique.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
aimsTo denounce slavery
raise awareness of the cruelty of slavery
countryOfOrigin France
depicts moral contradictions of American society under slavery
oppression of Black people in the United States
genre abolitionist literature
romantic novel
social novel
hasTitleInOriginalLanguage Marie, ou l’esclavage aux États-Unis NERFINISHED
intendedAudience general reading public
language French
literaryDevice social realism
tragic romance
literaryMovement 19th-century French literature
mainTheme critique of American slavery
racial injustice
slavery in the United States
social critique
tragic love story
narrativeForm prose
portrays enslaved people in the United States
interracial relationships
violence of slavery
publicationCentury 19th century
setting American South NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
timePeriodOfSetting slavery era in the United States
topic abolitionism
human rights
race relations in the United States
workType fiction

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Gustave de Beaumont notableWork Marie, ou l’esclavage aux États-Unis
Gustave de Beaumont notableWork Marie, ou l’esclavage aux États-Unis
this entity surface form: Marie, or Slavery in the United States