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. INDICE: 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 (1850b 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57820-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 20/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés