Discourses of slavery and abolition : Britain and its colonies, 1760-1838 / edited by Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, and Sara Salih.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carey, Brycchan, 1967-

Ellis, Markman.

Salih, Sara.

University of London. Institute of English Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Great Britain--History.

Slave trade.

Slavery.

Colonies.

History.

Great Britain.

Slave trade--Great Britain--Colonies--America--History.

Slavery--Great Britain--History.

Slavery--Great Britain--Colonies--America--History.

Slave trade in literature.

Slavery in literature.

America.

Physical Description:

xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Including original work by established experts alongside essays by new scholars in the field, the book begins by examining writing about slavery and race by philosophers and authors such as Aphra Behn. It considers self-representation in the works of Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, James Williams, and Mary Prince. The final section reads literary and cultural texts associated with the abolition movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, moving beyond traditional accounts of the documents of that movement to show the importance of religious writing, children's literature and the relationship between art and abolition. Together, the essays included in this book offer significant new insights into the culture of slavery and abolition and form essential reading for scholars and students in the field.

Contents:

Part I Discourses of Slavery 9

1 'Candid Reflections': The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century / Peter Kitson 11

2 Abolishing Romance: Representing Rape in Oroonoko / Sue Wiseman 26

3 'Incessant Labour': Georgic Poetry and the Problem of Slavery / Markman Ellis 45

4 Sensibility, Tropical Disease, and the Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Novel / Candace Ward 63

Part II Slavery from Within 79

5 'The Hellish Means of Killing and Kidnapping': Ignatius Sancho and the Campaign against the 'Abominable Traffic for Slaves' / Brycchan Carey 81

6 Who's Afraid of Cannibals? Some Uses of the Cannibalism Trope in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative / Mark Stein 96

7 'From His Own Lips': The Politics of Authenticity in A Narrative of Events since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica / Diana Paton 108

8 The History of Mary Prince, the Black Subject, and the Black Canon / Sara Salih 123

Part III Discourses of Abolition 139

9 Henry Smeathman, the Fly-Catching Abolitionist / Deirdre Coleman 141

10 Sentiment, Politics, and Empire: A Study of Beilby Porteus's Anti-Slavery Sermon / Bob Tennant 158

11 Slavery, Abolition, and the Nation in Priscilla Wakefield's Tour Books for Children / Johanna M. Smith 175

12 Questioning the 'Necessary Order of Things': Maria Edgeworth's 'The Grateful Negro', Plantation Slavery, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade / Frances R. Botkin 194

13 Turner's The Slave Ship (1840): Towards a Dialectical History Painting / Leo Costello 209.

Notes:

"Published in association with the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.

ISBN:

1403916470

OCLC:

53919709