Imagining transatlantic slavery
by
 
Kaplan, Cora.

Title
Imagining transatlantic slavery

Author
Kaplan, Cora.

ISBN
9780230578203

Publication Information
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description
xii, 209 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

General Note
Includes index.
 
Formerly CIP.

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.

Abstract
"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"--Provided by publisher.

Subject Term
Slavery -- History.
 
Slavery in literature.
 
Slavery in art.

Added Author
Kaplan, Cora.
 
Oldfield, J. R. (John R.)

Electronic Access
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2009043494-b.html
 
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2009043494-d.html
 
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2009043494-t.html


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