Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760–1838

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
‘Candid Reflections’: The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century....Pages 11-25
Abolishing Romance: Representing Rape in Oroonoko....Pages 26-44
‘Incessant Labour’: Georgic Poetry and the Problem of Slavery....Pages 45-62
Sensibility, Tropical Disease, and the Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Novel....Pages 63-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
‘The Hellish Means of Killing and Kidnapping’: Ignatius Sancho and the Campaign against the ‘Abominable Traffic for Slaves’....Pages 81-95
Who’s Afraid of Cannibals? Some Uses of the Cannibalism Trope in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative ....Pages 96-107
‘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 ....Pages 108-122
The History of Mary Prince, the Black Subject, and the Black Canon....Pages 123-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Henry Smeathman, the Fly-Catching Abolitionist....Pages 141-157
Sentiment, Politics, and Empire: A Study of Beilby Porteus’s Anti-Slavery Sermon....Pages 158-174
Slavery, Abolition, and the Nation in Priscilla Wakefield’s Tour Books for Children....Pages 175-193
Questioning the ‘Necessary Order of Things’: Maria Edgeworth’s ‘The Grateful Negro’, Plantation Slavery, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade....Pages 194-208
Turner’s The Slave Ship (1840) : Towards a Dialectical History Painting....Pages 209-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-237