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Obscenity Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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Donna I. Dennis
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , Spring 2002 , pp. 369 - 399
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2002 

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