Mary: Or the slavery in the United States

Author: (French) Bonneville
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book is a work written by Bonneville and his close friend Tocqueville after their joint journey through the United States from May 11, 1831, to February 20, 1832. Unlike Tocqueville, who chose to focus on the democratic system of the United States, Bonneville's work primarily examines the lifestyle and customs of Americans, as well as the contradictions between democracy and race. Although presented to readers in the form of a love novel, it is in fact a highly profound sociological monograph. It depicts the tragic lives of African Americans, portrays the real background of the economic development of slave plantations in 19th-century America, and provides highly valuable reference materials for understanding the debates and issues surrounding the social and political environment of Jacksonian America. More importantly, it delves deeply into the fate of freed slaves, colored people, those not recognized as citizens, and men and women who legally possess citizenship but, for various reasons, do not enjoy equal status with others in a society where everyone is equal. This is an eternal tragic theme. In this book, Bonneville, under the topic of racial persecution, reveals the tendency of mob rule.