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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964675303321

Titolo

Imagining Transatlantic Slavery / / edited by C. Kaplan, J. Oldfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9786612870163

9781282870161

1282870165

9780230277106

0230277101

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KaplanCora

OldfieldJ. R (John R.)

Disciplina

306.3/62

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

Race

Social history

Civilization - History

America - Literatures

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Race and Ethnicity Studies

Social History

Cultural History

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers originally presented at a conference.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.