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The Illustrated Slave - Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852 (Hardcover)
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The Illustrated Slave - Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852 (Hardcover)
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From the 1787 Wedgwood antislavery medallion featuring the image of
an enchained and pleading black body to Quentin Tarantino's Django
Unchained (2012) and Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave (2013),
slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the
optical imagination of the transatlantic world. Scholars have
examined various aspects of the visual culture that was slavery,
including its painting, sculpture, pamphlet campaigns, and artwork.
Yet an important piece of this visual culture has gone unexamined:
the popular and frequently reprinted antislavery illustrated books
published prior to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
that were utilized extensively by the antislavery movement in the
first half of the nineteenth century. The Illustrated Slave
analyzes some of the more innovative works in the archive of
antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside
other visual materials that depict enslavement. Martha J. Cutter
argues that some illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing
reader away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of empathy and
interrelationship with the enslaved. She also contends that some
illustrated books characterize the enslaved as obtaining a degree
of control over narrative and lived experiences, even if these
figurations entail a sense that the story of slavery is beyond
representation itself. Through exploration of famous works such as
Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as unfamiliar ones by Amelia Opie, Henry
Bibb, and Henry Box Brown, she delineates a mode of radical empathy
that attempts to destroy divisions between the enslaved individual
and the free white subject and between the viewer and the viewed.
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