Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition

Author: B. Carey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-05-25

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230522602

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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.

Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838

Author: Henrice Altink

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-22

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1134268696

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This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility
British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility

Author: B. Carey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-31

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0230501621

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British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and humanitarian battle of the time. Examining both familiar and unfamiliar texts, including poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that salve-owners and abolitionists alike made strategic use of the rhetoric of sensibility in the hope of influencing a reading public thoroughly immersed in the 'cult of feeling'.

Democratic Discourses
Democratic Discourses

Author: Michael Bennett

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780813535739

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'Democratic' Discourses shows the ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. Drawing on discourses about the body, gender, economics, and aesthetics, this study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the US.