Imagining transatlantic slavery

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Imagining transatlantic slavery

edited by Cora Kaplan and John Oldfield

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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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.

Table of Contents

  • List of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction
  • C.Kaplan & J.Oldfield PART I: CULTURES OF ABOLITION Inventing a Culture of Antislavery: Pennsylvanian Quakers and the Germantown Protest of 1688
  • B.Carey (Re)mapping Abolitionist Discourse during the 1790s: The Case of Benjamin Flower and the Cambridge Intelligencer
  • J.Oldfield 'Another Ida May': Photography and the American Abolition Campaign
  • J.Morgan-Owens Exchanging Fugitive Identity: William and Ellen Crafts' Transatlantic Reinvention (1850-1869)
  • H.Millette PART II: IMAGINING TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY Equiano's Paradise Lost: The Limits of Allusion in Chapter Five of The Interesting Narrative
  • V.Carretta Phyllis Wheatley's Abolitionist Text: The 1834 Edition
  • E.R.Elrod Women and Abolitionism: Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's Poetry of Freedom
  • L.M.Crisafulli PART III: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING Representing slavery in British museums: The Challenges of 2007
  • D.Hamilton Coram Boy : Slavery, Theatricality, and Sentimentality on the British Stage
  • E.K.Wallace Significant silence: Where was Slave Agency in the Popular Imagery of 2007?
  • M.Wood Afterword: Britain 2007, Problematizing Histories
  • C.Hall Index

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