Aesop and Abolition: Some materials concerning the death penalty, with particular reference to northern Ohio

Title

en_US Aesop and Abolition: Some materials concerning the death penalty, with particular reference to northern Ohio

Description

en_US Peter Linebaugh

Creator

en_US Linebaugh, Peter

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:53Z

en_US 2007-05

en_US 1998

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US The cover gives a particular day--March 5, 1998--and comments on this day in 1770, Crispus Attucks was killed, the first casualty of the American Revolution. The cover also has Steinhöwel's illustration of the shepherd cutting the throat of one sheep a day. This is a twenty-six page pamphlet, much of the material for which was gathered by students in a course on History of the Death Penalty at the University of Toledo. Linebaugh was their instructor in the spring of 1997. For him, the message of that fable on the cover has to do with the last sheep, who deserves to die because he never helped his fellows. The author's claim is that there is a connection between the death penalty and slavery. He finds a basis for that connection even in the common name of those opposed to them, abolitionist. There follows an interesting anecdotal history of the abolitionist (that is, of capital punishment) movement. The back page is a flyer on Wilford Berry, a poor deranged murderer who wants to die. This pamphlet is one of the most curious appearances of Aesop I have experienced! There seem to be no bibliographical details in the pamphlet except the date of publication.

Identifier

en_US 6170 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81576

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US s.n.]

en_US [S.l.

Subject

en_US KFO565.C2 L56 1998

en_US tangential

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole