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Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection. On 25 March 1807, the bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade within the British colonies was passed by an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, becoming law from 1 May. This new collection of essays marks this crucialbut conflicted historical moment and its troublesome legacies. They discuss the literary and cultural manifestations of slavery, abolition and emancipation from the eighteenth century to the present day, addressing such subjects and issues the relationship between Christian and Islamic forms of slavery and the polemical and scholarly debates these have occasioned; the visual representations of the moment of emancipation; the representation of slave rebellion; discourses of race and slavery; memory and slavery; and captivity and slavery. Among the writers and thinkers discussed Frantz Fanon, William Earle Jr, Olaudah Equiano, Charlotte Smith, Caryl Phillips, Bryan Edwards,Elizabeth Marsh, as well as a wide range of other thinkers, writers and artists. The volume also contains the hitherto unpublished text of an essay by the naturalist Henry Smeathman, Oeconomy of the S

Author

Brycchan Carey; Marcus Wood; Diana Paton; George Boulukos; Lincoln Shlensky; Deirdre Coleman; Felicity Nussbaum; Gerald MacLean; Mararoula Joannou; Dr Sara Salih; Peter J. Kitson

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer; D.S.Brewer; D.S. Brewer; D. S. Brewer

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781843841203

Subjects

Social Science, History, Literary Fiction