Imagining transatlantic slavery / edited by Cora Kaplan and John Oldfield.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kaplan, Cora.; Oldfield, J. R.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 209 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference.

"This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

pt. 1. Cultures of abolition. Inventing a culture of anti-slavery: Pennsylvanian Quakers and the Germantown Protest of 1688 / Brycchan Carey -- (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: the case of Benjamin Flower and the Cambridge Intelligencer / John Oldfield -- 'Another Ida May': photography and the American abolition campaign / Jessie Morgan-Owens -- Exchanging fugitive identity: William and Ellen Craft's transatlantic reinvention (1850-69) / HollyGale Millette -- pt. 2. Imaging transatlantic slavery. Equiano's paradise lost: the limits of allusion in chapter five of The Interesting Narrative / Vincent Carretta -- Phillis Wheatley's abolitionist text: the 1834 edition / Eileen Razzari Elrod -- Women and abolitionism: Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's poetry and freedom / Lilla Maria Crisafulli -- pt. 3. Remembering and forgetting. Representing slavery in British museums: The challenges of 2007 / Douglas Hamilton -- Coram boy: slavery, theatricality and sentimentality on the British stage / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace -- Significant silence: where was slave agency in the popular imagery of 2007? / Marcus Wood -- Afterword: Britain 2007, problematising histories / Catherine Hall.