Search Results for antislavery

...Susan M. Ryan Duke University Press 2000 Susan M. Charity Begins at Home: Stowe’s Antislavery Ryan Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 61 of238 Scholarly work on Harriet...

...Jené Schoenfeld Duke University Press 2006 The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction . By Eve Allegra Raimon. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2004. x, 202 pp. Paper, $21.95. The Mulatta and the Politics of Race...

.... Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. viii, 223 pp. $80.00. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord . By Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 233 pp. $29.95. Book Reviews Godly Letters: The Literature...

... (1836). It explores material that has been largely left out of the antislavery story: the cases brought by abolitionists to free slaves who had traveled with their masters into free territory. Wong's essay reconstructs the records of these cases from popular literature, newsprint, and legal pamphlets...

...John Ernest To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class . By Ball Erica L. . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2012 . xv , 175 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth...

... attention to very different cohorts of women writing in the antebellum period. Kent discusses white women who wrote antislavery literature in the decades leading up to the Civil War, and Stowe studies southern diarists who wrote during the war. Both books make relatively small mention of the most widely...

... speechifying at the expense of black representation or expression. Yet the book also affirms how the dramas, sometimes against their own nature, offer real antislavery sentiment. Mielke introduces genuine scholarly innovation as well. In chapter three, she outlines her concept of dramatic suasion , namely...

...Elizabeth Freeman © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850. By Christine Levecq. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2008. xii, 306 pp. $35.00...

... contradicted any notion that colonial slavery resembled ancient precedents. This article shows how early antislavery writers seized on these reports as evidence that participation in the slave trade was a violation of Christian moral duty. New forms of moral casuistry based on factual reports of atrocities...

.... By Susan M. Stabile. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 284 pp. $34.95. Race and Time: American Women’s Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity. By Janet Gray. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. viii, 324 pp. $44.95. These two books present arguments about poetics, material...

...Ian Finseth © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Ian Evolution, Cosmopolitanism, and Finseth Emerson’s Antislavery Politics His twenty-year struggle against slavery trans- formed Ralph Waldo Emerson, entailing a thoroughgoing reassess- ment...

...Ed White 2005 The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity . By Ralph Bauer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 295 pp. $65.00; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Philip Gould...

...Danielle Christmas Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic . By Stefan M. Wheelock . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2016 . xiii, 216 pp. Cloth , $69.50 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . Black Well...

... and sentimental antislavery rhetorics for which he is known in favor of a newly pragmatic antislavery logic focused on slavery’s unsustainability—its tendency to exhaust the soil. This argument has two main aims: to explore Douglass’s engagement with ecological and economic antislavery rhetorics, and, more...

... male preachers—both proslavery and antislavery—and how liberally it puts sermons into the mouths of numerous “lowly” characters, strategies by which Stowe transfers the power to preach from the ordained clergy to ordinary people who speak their convictions across the lines of gender, class, and race...

...Elizabeth Duquette Through a sustained analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel, Dred (1856), this essay argues for the reevaluation of Stowe's political and moral priorities and values. Focusing on the novel's examination of interest, the essay shows how Stowe challenges one...

...Caleb Smith This essay examines previously unexplored divisions within the antislavery movement’s published responses to Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . Revisiting Jacobs’s conflict with her editor, Lydia Maria Child, over the suppressed chapter about John Brown, Smith...

...Lance Newman In the 1850s, Frederick Douglass set out to nurture emergent antislavery commitments within the most advanced political milieu of the antebellum decade, the Free Soil movement. Douglass developed a protoenvironmentalist critique of capitalism's alienation of workers from the land...

... was especially notable because Delany, the African American doctor, antislavery lecturer, journalist, and author, had never set foot in Central America. Mattox's essay examines archival accounts of the actual election that took place in San Juan del Norte, including items in the African American press...

... other literary works) indicate that Forrest’s oratorical and theatrical performances could not be wholly dissociated from antislavery discourse and working-class radicalism. This critical restaging of Forrest’s 1838 speech concludes with the suggestion that Forrest’s star power arose in part from...