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From the eighteenth century on, appeals to listeners’ and readers’ feelings about the sufferings of slaves were a predominant strategy of abolitionism. This book argues that expressions of feeling in those texts did not just appeal to individual readers’ inclinations to sympathy but rather were inherently political. The authors of these texts made arguments from the social and political ideologies that grounded their moral and social lives.<br> <br> Levecq examines liberalism and republicanism,

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Author

Levecq, Christine;

Publisher

University of New Hampshire Press ; University Press of New England

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781584658139

Category

literary studies

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25