Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and Its Colonies, 1760-1838

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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Discourses of Slavery -- 1 'Candid Reflections': The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century -- 2 Abolishing Romance: Representing Rape in Oroonoko -- 3 'Incessant Labour': Georgic Poetry and the Problem of Slavery -- 4 Sensibility, Tropical Disease, and the Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Novel -- Part II Slavery from Within -- 5 'The Hellish Means of Killing and Kidnapping': Ignatius Sancho and the Campaign against the 'Abominable Traffic for Slaves' -- 6 Who's Afraid of Cannibals? Some Uses of the Cannibalism Trope in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative -- 7 '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 -- 8 The History of Mary Prince, the Black Subject, and the Black Canon -- Part III Discourses of Abolition -- 9 Henry Smeathman, the Fly-Catching Abolitionist -- 10 Sentiment, Politics, and Empire: A Study of Beilby Porteus's Anti-Slavery Sermon -- 11 Slavery, Abolition, and the Nation in Priscilla Wakefield's Tour Books for Children -- 12 Questioning the 'Necessary Order of Things': Maria Edgeworth's 'The Grateful Negro', Plantation Slavery, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- 13 Turner's The Slave Ship (1840): Towards a Dialectical History Painting -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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Discourses of slavery and abolition: Britain and its colonies, 1760 - 1838

Carey, Brycchan

Carey, Brycchan

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