Imagining Transatlantic Slavery

by C. Kaplan (Editor), J. Oldfield (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230578203
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/20/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

BRYCCHAN CAREY Reader in English Literature, Kingston University, UK VINCENT CARRETTA Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA LILLA MARIA CRISAFULLI Professor of English Literature, University of Bologna, Italy, and Director, Centro Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici EILEEN ELROD Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, Santa Clara University, USA CATHERINE HALL Professor of History, University College London, UK DOUGLAS HAMILTON RCUK Fellow and Lecturer in Histor, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), University of Hull, UK ELIZABETH KOWALESKI WALLACE Professor of English, Boston College, USA JESSE MORGAN OWENS PhD in American Literature, New York University, USA, and professional photographer HOLLYGALE MILLETTE PhD candidate in Cultural History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK MARCUS WOOD Professor of English and American Studies, University of Sussex, UK

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xii

Introduction 1

Part I Cultures of Abolition 15

1 Inventing a Culture of Anti-Slavery: Pennsylvanian Quakers and the Germantown Protest of 1688 Brycchan Carey 17

2 (Re)mapping Abolitionist Discourse during the 1790s: The Case of Benjamin Flower and the Cambridge Intelligencer John Oldfield 33

3 'Another Ida May': Photography and the American Abolition Campaign Jessie Morgan-Owens 47

4 Exchanging Fugitive Identity: William and Ellen Craft's Transatlantic Reinvention (1850-69) HollyGale Millette 61

Part II Imagining Transatlantic Slavery 77

5 Equiano's Paradise Lost: The Limits of Allusion in Chapter Five of The Interesting Narrative Vincent Carretta 79

6 Phillis Wheatley's Abolitionist Text: The 1834 Edition Eileen Razzari Elrod 96

7 Women and Abolitionism: Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's Poetry of Freedom Lilla Maria Crisafulli 110

Part III Remembering and Forgetting 125

8 Representing Slavery in British Museums: The Challenges of 2007 Douglas Hamilton 127

9 Coram Boy: Slavery, Theatricality and Sentimentality on the British Stage Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace 145

10 Significant Silence: Where was Slave Agency in the Popular Imagery of 2007? Marcus Wood 162

Afterword: Britain 2007, Problematising Histories Catherine Hall 191

Index 202