Discourses of Slavery and Abolition

BRYCCHAN CAREY is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University in London. A specialist in the literature and culture of slavery and abolition, his publications include articles in the British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies and The Age of Johnson. MARKMAN ELLIS is Reader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Politics of Sensibility (1996), The History of Gothic Fiction (2000) and several articles on literature and slavery. He is currently completing a cultural

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.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.