...Angelina Del Balzo This article offers a genre‐based argument for the white Imoinda in Thomas Southerne's stage adaptation of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko . Southerne's adaptation was one of the earliest depictions of plantation slavery on the English stage, and it drew on tropes from the Oriental she...

...Christopher Chan This essay charts the reception of five widely read antislavery poems—Hannah More's Slavery (1788); Edward Rushton's West-Indian Eclogues (1787); William Roscoe's The Wrongs of Africa (1787 – 88); John Jamieson's The Sorrows of Slavery (1789); and James Field Stanfield's The Guinea...

...Roxann Wheeler Curran Andrew S. . The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2011 ). Pp. xiv + 310. 29 ills. $75 Gikandi Simon . Slavery and the Culture of Taste . ( Princeton : Princeton Univ. , 2011...

... welcome and much-­needed additions to the historiography of slavery in the English-speaking­ world during the seven- teenth and long eighteenth centuries. Both books examine the archival evi- dence widely and deeply to reconstruct the lives of people of African descent in “societies with slaves...

....” “Tied up at work”: it is a metaphor that comes so naturally that its implicit image—of a human being, bound against his will, forced to complete a task–barely registers. But if it was deployed not in the twenty-first century, well after the abolition of slavery, but amid the period that witnessed its...

... the Use of West India Sugar and Rum (London: T. Redd, 1791). 18. Seymour Drescher, “History's Engines: British Mobilization in the Age of Revolution,” The William & Mary Quarterly 66 (2009): 737–56, especially 745. 17. Joseph Woods, Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes (London...

... J Can fiction “do” racism, does it only reflect it, or is the reflecting in itself a kind of “doing”? What role did the eighteenth-­century novel play in developing rac- ist ideologies during and after the era of transatlantic slavery? And how is it possible to tell what kind of influence...

...Tobias Menely Daniel M. Gross. The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's “Rhetoric” to Modern Brain Science (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 194. $18. ISBN 0-226-30980-0 Brycchan Carey. British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760...

... the de facto assimilation of blacks and their mixed-race progeny in the metropo- lis, to the de jure exclusion of blacks, and their consignment to slavery, in North America. Laws and social mores with respect to intermarriage imposed limits on both its occurrence and acceptability. Where laws per...

...Alexander Dick Ian Baucom. Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History (Durham: Duke Univ., 2006). Pp. x + 387. $23.95 paper Robert Mitchell. Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity (New York...

... + 571. 17 ills. $27.95 paper J This is an ambitious and urgent work, given current debates on the memory of slavery within France and beyond. Miller focuses particularly on the slave trade, rather than on slavery more generally, although he acknowledges...

... that effectively ended slavery in the state. Gilbert at first wrongly describes the Mans­field decision as having “held slavery to be illegal in Great Britain,” but he quickly corrects himself: “Mansfield certainly did not manumit all blacks in the British Isles” (7). In his closing chapters, Gilbert pays...

... reference to its ability to mobilize action against slavery. These investigations, gathering momentum since the mid nineties, continue to enrich and expand our understanding of Sterne’s political leanings, colonial context, and posthumous impact. W. B. Gerard’s essay in Swiftly Sterneward...

... industrialist could have resisted. Darwin’s skirting of these facts in his apotheosis of Wedgwoodian industry makes his reference to slavery particularly curious. The marvel of the technology Darwin panegyrizes here is its self-sufficiency: Wedg- wood’s materials are British, he stresses...

.... The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898; rep., London: Hesperus, 2003). Pp. 112. £5.59 (paper). ISBN 184391039x Daniel Vitkus, ed. Piracy, Slavery and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England (New York: Columbia Univ., 2001). Pp. 416. $62 (cloth) ISBN 0231119046. $23.50 (paper) ISBN...

...Pamela Cheek Harriet Guest. Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges, and the Return to the Pacific (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. xx + 249. 32 b/w + 50 color ills. $99 Kay Dian Kriz. Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British...

.... $19.95 paper Benes, Peter. Meetinghouses of Early Modern New England (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts, 2012). Pp. vi + 446. 120 ills. $49.95 Benjamin, Richard, and David Fleming. Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction (Liverpool: Liverpool Univ., 2011). Pp. 96. $19.95 paper Berman, Ric...

... of families ripped apart. The last stanzas offer the possibility of an alternative means of engaging in transatlantic trade without slavery. In ways that may strike a modern reader as objectionable, Stanfield appears as concerned with “saving” global trade as with ending the evils of chattel slavery. Rediker...

... against transatlantic slavery, and he was also a “self-­made man” whose later autobiography would be astonishingly popular. Yet in his letter, he seems to have neither abolitionism nor autobiography in mind. Equiano was instead writing to become a missionary to Africa. He received assistance when...

... disdain of inequality, slavery, and imperialism. Rejected respectively by the theater managers George Colman the Elder and Thomas Harris, these pieces expose the reach of one radical’s high idealism. Perhaps the prospec- tive discovery of other lost manuscripts or publications will inspire scholars...