...Joseph M. Ortiz Fictions of Consent will be indispensable for anyone working on the genealogies of Atlantic slavery and the early modern histories of race. In my view, it could do more to establish the connection between early modern England’s reanimation of a classical rhetoric of slavery...

...Louis B. Bright Wylie Sypher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1942. Pp. x + 340. $3.00. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Louis B. Wright 485 Guinea’s Captive Kings: British Anti-slavery Literature...

... participation in transatlantic slavery and counters the historical amnesia that Spanish culture frequently displays toward its colonial past. An early forerunner in Spain’s long-delayed path to recognizing its history of slavery, La indiana forms part of activist efforts in Catalonia, the autonomous community...

... and Postcolonial Theory (2009). Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture . By Dobie Madeleine . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . xv + 336 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 References Aravamudan Srinivas . 2012...

...Catherine Gimelli Martin Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death . By Nyquist Mary . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . xiii + 421 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Arbitrary Rule offers a rich, intricately detailed...

...Jennifer C. Nash [email protected] The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History . By Alys Eve Weinbaum . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . ix + 286 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021...

...Srinivas Aravamudan Slavery and the Culture of Taste . By Gikandi Simon . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 . xviii + 366 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Simon Gikandi’s prizewinning study begins with a reflection on the finality of Derek...

...-Roman political slave to tyranny as it collides with the institution of African slavery in early modern political debates over property and in pamphlets protesting injustices in the trades in sugar, slaves, and indentured servants. Using narrative digressions to stage a struggle for primacy between...

... (2004) and coeditor (with Sharon Marcus) of “The Way We Read Now,” a special issue of Representations (2009). He is working on a book-length critique of the recovery imperative in the historiography of slavery. © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 On Failing to Make the Past Present...

... to the Spanish captain and crew that, unless the slaves were returned to free Senegal, each Spaniard would follow his leader to death. Babo is evil because of an evil world. Almost all critics who insist that Babo is evil refuse to discuss the question of slavery. Rosalie Feltenstein, for example...

... of a Romantic apostrophic ode are both constrained by the discourses of social death on which poetics (well, on which everything) has been built over the last two hundred years? Consider the Shelleyan apostrophic address of “On Liberty and Slavery,” an ode written in North Carolina in 1828, exactly...

... of Spanish cruelty, to position Spain as the source of early modern discourses about racial difference (7). This book’s intersectional study of racialized depictions of Spanish and Moorish characters deftly exposes the fact that racialized slavery had a far greater impact on early modern English drama...

... tragedy history Voltaire Vodou The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) has long been compared to a tragic play. When the slave rebels pressured colonial authorities to abolish slavery in 1793, it set the stage for a decade-long struggle that included genocidal wars and the repeated destruction...

... on Slavery, Spirituous liquors, Capital punishment, Texas, Aesthetics, any thing but Christ; and . . . drives their noblest minds from theology to politics.”12 While the latter article does not explicitly align aesthetics with the other radical reforms that have taken the place of religion, it does...

... of Apprenticeship to remedy the ills of slavery led “abolitionists” to attempt “to relocate the normative grounds of value [in] the reproductive labor of Jamaican women” (27). Liberal political economists located value in labor power (the potential for labor), not in the “flesh and bones” of the women themselves...

... West African slaves who came from polytheistic oral traditions, the Muslim slaves were often better-­educated by Euro- pean standards, were lighter-­skinned, and had been sold into slavery as the result of military actions or raids on Muslim traders caravanning from Algeria to Ethiopia (Diouf...

... with the populist anger in the square, giving him a kind of sympathy with the black people. The words “trading family” and “tricked” graft something hitherto unmen- tioned onto the merely racial sentiment Naipaul perceives: colonial commerce and slavery. Thus, even though Naipaul calls it politics...

... to hell because, contrary to his society’s beliefs, he is doing the right thing” (34). Through dazzling historiography Arac establishes the attitudes toward abolitionism in Missouri during the 1830s and 1840s and proves that anti- slavery feeling there was vigorous and conspicuous. He argues...

... of Washington. Gunning 0 Review 529 slavery” to “brutishness and semihuman stature” (53).Similarly, black male demands for American citizenship helped perpetuate, at least rhetorically, “the ‘hierarchy of races”’ (40) promoted by Anglo-Saxonism...

...: Harvard University Press.  . 2003. Death of a Discipline. New York: Columbia University Press. Watt, Ian. 1957. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. London: Chatto and Windus. DOI 10.1215/00267929-­2153536 Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery...