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

"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"--P...

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 209 p. :; ill.
Notes:Papers originally presented at a conference.
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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.