Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood

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Contents
List of Contributors
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1. Introduction: ‘AValuable Lesson’
2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom
3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Anti-Slavery Debates of the 1790s
4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795–1834)
5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry
6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
7. Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer’s The Last Days of Pompeii
8. The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism
9. Recollecting Aristotle: Pro-Slavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I
10. The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA
11. Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition
12. Universal Slave Revolts: C. L. R. James’s Use of Classical Literature in The Black Jacobins
13. Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in Sommersby
Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past
Consolidated Bibliography
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