Slavery and Sentiment : The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770-1850.

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Author:

Levecq, Christine.

ISBN:

9781584658139

Personal Author:

Levecq, Christine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Series:

Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies

Contents:

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Interiority, Aesthetics, and Antislavery Sentiment -- Chapter 2: Trade, Sailors, National Agency, and World Citizenship -- Chapter 3: Brotherhood, Radicalism, and Antislavery -- Chapter 4: Blood, Bodies, and the Antebellum Slave Narrative -- Chapter 5: The Case of Frederick Douglass -- Epilogue: Transnationalism and Black Studies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Abstract:

Illuminates the political dimensions of American and British antislavery texts written by blacks.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

Antislavery movements in literature.

Didactic fiction, American -- History and criticism.

Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Slavery in literature.

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