A collection of new essays, "Imagining Transatlantic Slavery"
offers the latest research and thinking on current debates about
the representation - past and present - of transatlantic slavery.
Building on the interest generated by the bicentenary in 2007-8 of
the end of British and American involvement in the transatlantic
slave trade, our volume is interdisciplinary, drawing on history,
literature and museum and heritage studies. Its focus is on the
transatlantic nature of slavery and abolition, and the essays range
from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Its distinguished
contributors offer a critical view of the histories leading up to
the defining decisions of 1807-08 and its complex legacies over the
last two centuries. Essays on notable figures such as Phillis
Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Hannah More, Benjamin Flower, and
William and Ellen Craft are juxtaposed with those on early Quaker
writing and the use of photography in abolitionist discourse. The
last part of the book on 'Remembering and Forgetting' addresses
debates surrounding the representation of slavery in drama, visual
culture, museums and galleries, and appraises the importance of
recent research to public understanding of slavery today.
Contributors: Brycchan Carey, Vincent Carretta, Lilla Maria
Crisafulli, Eileen Razzari Elrod, Catherine Hall, Douglas Hamilton,
Cora Kaplan, HollyGale Millette, John Oldfield, Jessie
Morgan-Owens, Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace and Marcus Wood
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