Slavery And The Cultures Of Abolition

Author : Brycchan Carey,Peter J. Kitson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843841207

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Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition by Brycchan Carey,Peter J. Kitson Pdf

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 as: 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 are: 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 The volume also contains the hitherto unpublished text of an essay by the naturalist Henry Smeathman, Oeconomy of the Slave Ship. Contributors: GEORGE BOULUKOS, DEIRDRE COLEMAN, MARAROULA JOANNOU, GERALD MACLEAN, FELICITY NUSSBAUM, DIANA PATON, SARA SALIH, LINCOLN SHLENSKY, MARCUS WOOD

Author : Christer Petley,Stephan Lenik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315518633

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Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean by Christer Petley,Stephan Lenik Pdf

Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancipation Caribbean. Throughout the history of slavery, objects and places were significant to different groups of people, from the opulent master class to enslaved field hands as well as to other groups, including maroons, free people of colour and missionaries, all of who shared the lived environments of Caribbean plantation colonies. By exploring the rich material world inhabited by these people, this book offers new ways of seeing history from below, of linking localised experiences with global transformations and connecting deeply personal lived realities with larger epochal events that defined the history of slavery and its abolition in the British Caribbean. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition.

Author : Stephan Palmié
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870499033

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Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery by Stephan Palmié Pdf

Historians and anthropologists focus on the cultural dimensions of slavery in various geographical and historical settings. They deal with conceptual and theoretical problems in current slavery studies, as well as issues including Native American slaveholding; the integration of former slaves into West African societies; slave life on Caribbean sugar plantations; slave cultures in Suriname; female slave-owners on the Gold Coast; and Maroon communities. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195056396

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis Pdf

This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.

Author : Christer Petley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317313939

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Slaveholders in Jamaica by Christer Petley Pdf

Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and considering how their economic, cultural and military dependency on the colonial metropole meant that they were unable to avert the ending of British slavery.

Author : C. Kaplan,J. Oldfield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230277106

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Imagining Transatlantic Slavery by C. Kaplan,J. Oldfield Pdf

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.

Author : B. Carey,M. Ellis,S. Salih
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230522602

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Discourses of Slavery and Abolition by B. Carey,M. Ellis,S. Salih Pdf

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual culture in the 'long' Eighteenth-century. The book begins by examining writing about slavery and race by both philosophers and by authors such as Aphra Behn. It considers self-representation in the works of Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, James Williams and Mary Prince. The final section reads literary and cultural texts associated with the abolition movements of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, moving beyond traditional accounts of the documents of that movement to show the importance of religious writing, children's literature and the relationship between art and abolition.

Author : Esther Copley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Slavery
ISBN : OCLC:654742467

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A History of Slavery and Its Abolition by Esther Copley Pdf

Author : David Turley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134977451

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The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860 by David Turley Pdf

This book provides a fresh overall account of organised antislavery by focusing on the active minority of abolutionists throughout the country. The analysis of their culture of reform demonstrates the way in which alliances of diverse religious groups roused public opinion and influenced political leaders. The resulting definition of the distinctive `reform mentality' links antislavery to other efforts at moral and social improvement and highlights its contradictory relations to the social effects of industrialization and the growth of liberalism.

Author : Leo D'Anjou
Publisher : Aldine De Gruyter
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 020230521X

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Social Movements and Cultural Change by Leo D'Anjou Pdf

In the half decade between 1787 and 1792, thanks to the work of the Abolition Committee in Britain, a vast change occurred in the way slavery and the slave trade were defined. Previously seen as necessary evils, they were seen after 1792 as gross injustices and evils that had to disappear. The present volume uses the abolition movement to show how social movements produce and change meanings and thus bring about cultural change. D'Anjou's analytical strategy has two aspects. It distinguishes the social movement as whole from its component elements, and separates its organizational context from other historical developments, the historical context. In adopting this strategy, collective campaigns are studied as instances of contentious actions that depend on antecedent developments and of characteristics that are central in explaining the effect of those actions on the culture of a society. Devising a tentative model from existing empirical research on social movements, the author tests that model against the results of his case study. The resulting conceptual model, as refined, may be used as an instrument in further research on movements and the construction of meaning. This evolved model is built around three notions: history, agency, and the collective campaign resulting in a public discourse. When, as happened in abolition, the views of the actors prevail in the public discourse, cultural change occurs.

Author : Henrice Altink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134268696

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Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838 by Henrice Altink Pdf

This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.

Author : Marika Sherwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857710130

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After Abolition by Marika Sherwood Pdf

With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she describes how slavery remained very much a part of British investment, commerce and empire, especially in funding and supplying goods for the trade in slaves and in the use of slave-grown produce. The nancial world of the City in London also depended on slavery, which - directly and indirectly - provided employment for millions of people. "After Abolition" also examines some of the causes and repercussions of continued British involvement in slavery and describes many of the apparently respectable villains, as well as the heroes, connected with the trade - at all levels of society. It contains important revelations about a darker side of British history, previously unexplored, which will provoke real questions about Britain's perceptions of its past

Author : David Lambert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521841313

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White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolition by David Lambert Pdf

This book explores the articulation of white creole identity in Barbados during the age of abolitionism.

Author : Frank McGlynn,Seymour Drescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971542

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The Meaning of Freedom by Frank McGlynn,Seymour Drescher Pdf

In this interdisciplinary study, scholars consider the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States. What was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? Did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in American plantation societies? Was there a common postemancipation pattern of economic development? How did emancipation affect the politics and culture of race and class? This comparative study addresses precisely these types of questions as it makes a significant contribution to a new a growing field.

Author : Edgardo Pérez Morales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831529

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Unraveling Abolition by Edgardo Pérez Morales Pdf

A study of the legal origins of antislavery, and how Colombian slaves transformed ideas on slavery, freedom and political belonging.