Discourses of Slavery and Abolition ISBN: 9780230522602 Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited Subjects: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection;
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.
FRANCES BOTKIN Assistant Professor of English, Towson University, Baltimore, USADEIRDRE COLEMAN Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Sydney, AustraliaLEO COSTELLO Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USAPETER KITSON Professor of English, University of Dundee, UKDIANA PATON Lecturer in Caribbean History, University of Newcastle, UKJOHANNA M. SMITH Associate Professor of English, University of Texas - Arlington, USAMARK STEIN Junior Professor of Theories of Non-European Literatures and Cultures, Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam, GermanyBOB TENNANT Elected official of the British Transport and General Workers Union and Political JournalistCANDACE WARD Assistant Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USASUE WISEMAN Reader in Early Modern Studies, Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
