Discourses of Slavery and Abolition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Brycchan Carey, Sara Salih

      Pages 1-8

3. Discourses of Slavery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. ‘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

      Pages 11-25

   3. Abolishing Romance: Representing Rape in Oroonoko

      • Sue Wiseman

      Pages 26-44

   4. ‘Incessant Labour’: Georgic Poetry and the Problem of Slavery

      • Markman Ellis

      Pages 45-62

   5. Sensibility, Tropical Disease, and the Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Novel

      • Candace Ward

      Pages 63-77

4. Slavery from Within

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. ‘The Hellish Means of Killing and Kidnapping’: Ignatius Sancho and the Campaign against the ‘Abominable Traffic for Slaves’

      • Brycchan Carey

      Pages 81-95

   3. Who’s Afraid of Cannibals? Some Uses of the Cannibalism Trope in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative

      • Mark Stein

      Pages 96-107

   4. ‘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

      Pages 108-122

   5. The History of Mary Prince, the Black Subject, and the Black Canon

      • Sara Salih

      Pages 123-138

5. Discourses of Abolition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Henry Smeathman, the Fly-Catching Abolitionist

      • Deirdre Coleman

      Pages 141-157

   3. Sentiment, Politics, and Empire: A Study of Beilby Porteus’s Anti-Slavery Sermon

      • Bob Tennant

      Pages 158-174

   4. Slavery, Abolition, and the Nation in Priscilla Wakefield’s Tour Books for Children

      • Johanna M. Smith

      Pages 175-193

   5. Questioning the ‘Necessary Order of Things’: Maria Edgeworth’s ‘The Grateful Negro’, Plantation Slavery, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade

      • Frances R. Botkin

      Pages 194-208

   6. Turner’s The Slave Ship (1840) : Towards a Dialectical History Painting

      • Leo Costello

      Pages 209-222

6. Back Matter

   Pages 223-237

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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.

• apprentice
• authenticity
• campaign
• children
• culture
• disease
• pain
• politics
• race
• writing

• School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

  Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, Sara Salih

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

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