Discourses of Slavery and Abolition

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Candid Reflections’: The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 Abolishing Romance: Representing Rape in Oroonoko

Chapter 4 ‘Incessant Labour’: Georgic Poetry and the Problem of Slavery

Chapter 5 Sensibility, Tropical Disease, and the Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Novel

Chapter 6 ‘The Hellish Means of Killing and Kidnapping’: Ignatius Sancho and the Campaign against the ‘Abominable Traffic for Slaves’

Chapter 7 Who’s Afraid of Cannibals? Some Uses of the Cannibalism Trope in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative

Chapter 8 ‘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

Chapter 9 The History of Mary Prince , the Black Subject, and the Black Canon

Chapter 10 Henry Smeathman, the Fly-Catching Abolitionist

Chapter 11 Sentiment, Politics, and Empire: A Study of Beilby Porteus’s Anti-Slavery Sermon

Chapter 12 Slavery, Abolition, and the Nation in Priscilla Wakefield’s Tour Books for Children

Chapter 13 Questioning the ‘Necessary Order of Things’: Maria Edgeworth’s ‘The Grateful Negro’, Plantation Slavery, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Chapter 14 Turner’s The Slave Ship (1840) : Towards a Dialectical History Painting