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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. The book begins by examining writing about slavery and race by both philosophers and by 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.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Discourses of Slavery
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Front Matter
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Slavery from Within
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Front Matter
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Discourses of Abolition
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
FRANCES BOTKIN Assistant Professor of English, Towson University, Baltimore, USA
DEIRDRE COLEMAN Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Sydney, Australia
LEO COSTELLO Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
PETER KITSON Professor of English, University of Dundee, UK
DIANA PATON Lecturer in Caribbean History, University of Newcastle, UK
JOHANNA M. SMITH Associate Professor of English, University of Texas - Arlington, USA
MARK STEIN Junior Professor of Theories of Non-European Literatures and Cultures, Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany
BOB TENNANT Elected official of the British Transport and General Workers Union and Political Journalist
CANDACE WARD Assistant Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
SUE WISEMAN Reader in Early Modern Studies, Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Book Subtitle: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838
Editors: Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, Sara Salih
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522602
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1647-1Published: 25 May 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-52260-2Published: 25 May 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 237
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Fiction, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature