Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; B.Carey & S.Salih PART I: DISCOURSES OF SLAVERY 'Candid Reflections': The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century; P.Kitson Abolishing Romance: Representing Rape in Oroonoko ; S.Wiseman 'Incessant labour': Georgic Poetry and the Problem of Slavery; M.Ellis Sensibility, Tropical Disease and the Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Novel; C.Ward PART II: SLAVERY FROM WITHIN 'The hellish means of Killing and Kidnapping': Ignatius Sancho and the Campaign Against the 'abominable traffic for slaves'; B.Carey Who's Afraid of Cannibals: Some Uses of the Cannibalism Trope in Oluadah Equiano's Interesting Narrative ; M.Stein 'From His Own Lips': The Politics of Authenticity in A Narrative of Events since the First of August, 1834 by James Williams, An Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica; D.Paton The History of Mary Prince, the Black Subject and the Black Canon; S.Salih PART III: DISCOURSES OF ABOLITION Henry Smeathman, the Fly-catching Abolitionist; D.Coleman Sentiment, Politics and Empire: A Study of Beilby Porteus's Antislavery Sermon; B.Tennant Slavery, Abolition, and the Nation in Priscilla Wakefield's Tour Books for Children ; J.M.Smith Questioning the 'Necessary Order of Things': Maria Edgeworth's 'The Grateful Negro', Plantation Slavery and the Abolition of the Slave Trade; F.R.Botkin Turner's Slave Ship , 1840: Towards a Dialectical History Painting; L.Costello Bibliography Index

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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

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FRANCES BOTKIN Assistant Professor of English, Towson University, Baltimore, USA DEIRDRE COLEMAN Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Sydney, Australia LEO COSTELLO Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA PETER KITSON Professor of English, University of Dundee, UK DIANA PATON Lecturer in Caribbean History, University of Newcastle, UK JOHANNA M. SMITH Associate Professor of English, University of Texas - Arlington, USA MARK STEIN Junior Professor of Theories of Non-European Literatures and Cultures, Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany BOB TENNANT Elected official of the British Transport and General Workers Union and Political Journalist CANDACE WARD Assistant Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA SUE WISEMAN Reader in Early Modern Studies, Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK