Imagining Transatlantic Slavery

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--provided By Publisher. A Collection Of New Essays, Imagining Transatlantic Slavery Offers The Latest Research And Thinking On Current Debates About The Representation - Past And Present - Of Transatlantic Slavery. Building On The Interest Generated By The Bicentenary In 2007-08 Of The End Of British And American Involvement In The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Our Volume Is Interdisciplinary, Drawing On History, Literature And Museum And Heritage Studies. Its Focus Is On The Transatlantic Nature Of Slavery And Abolition, And The Essays Range From The Seventeenth To The Twenty-first Century. Its Distinguished Contributors Offer A Critical View Of The Histories Leading Up To The Defining Decisions Of 1807-08 And Its Complex Legacies Over The Last Two Centuries. Essays On Notable Figures Such As Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Hannah More, Benjamin Flower, And William And Ellen Craft Are Juxtaposed With Those On Early Quaker Writing And The Use Of Photography In Abolitionist Discourse. The Last Part Of The Book On 'remembering And Forgetting' Addresses Debates Surrounding The Representation Of Slavery In Drama, Visual Culture, Museums And Galleries, And Appraises The Importance Of Recent Research To Public Understanding Of Slavery Today. Pt. 1. Cultures Of Abolition. Inventing A Culture Of Anti-slavery: Pennsylvanian Quakers And The Germantown Protest Of 1688 / Brycchan Carey -- (re)mapping Abolitionist Discourse During The 1790s: The Case Of Benjamin Flower And The Cambridge Intelligencer / John Oldfield -- 'another Ida May': Photography And The American Abolition Campaign / Jessie Morgan-owens -- Exchanging Fugitive Identity: William And Ellen Craft's Transatlantic Reinvention (1850-69) / Hollygale Millette -- Pt. 2. Imaging Transatlantic Slavery. Equiano's Paradise Lost: The Limits Of Allusion In Chapter Five Of The Interesting Narrative / Vincent Carretta -- Phillis Wheatley's Abolitionist Text: The 1834 Edition / Eileen Razzari Elrod -- Women And Abolitionism: Hannah More's And Ann Yearsley's Poetry And Freedom / Lilla Maria Crisafulli -- Pt. 3. Remembering And Forgetting. Representing Slavery In British Museums: The Challenges Of 2007 / Douglas Hamilton -- Coram Boy: Slavery, Theatricality And Sentimentality On The British Stage / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace -- Significant Silence: Where Was Slave Agency In The Popular Imagery Of 2007? / Marcus Wood -- Afterword: Britian 2007, Problematising Histories / Catherine Hall. Edited By Cora Kaplan And John Oldfield. Papers Originally Presented At A Conference. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.