| Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and Its Colonies, 1760-1838 2004 Edition Contributor(s): Carey, B. (Editor), Ellis, M. (Editor), Salih, S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403916470 ISBN-13: 9781403916471 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2004 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| LCCN: 2003069128 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.72" W x 8.8" (0.95 lbs) 237 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |