Author: Thomas DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Dying Negro, a Poem by the Late Thomas Day and John Bicknell,... To which is Added a Fragment of a Letter on the Slavery and the Negroes, by Thomas Day,...
Author: Thomas DayThe Suicide Archive
Author: Doyle D. CalhounPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478059737
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Throughout the French empire, from the Atlantic and the Caribbean to West and North Africa, men, women, and children responded to enslavement, colonization, and oppression through acts of suicide. In The Suicide Archive, Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and neocolonialism, from the time of slavery to the Algerian War for Independence to the “Arab Spring.” Noting that suicide was either obscured in or occluded from French colonial archives, Calhoun turns to literature and film to show how aesthetic forms and narrative accounts can keep alive the silenced histories of suicide as a political language. Drawing on scientific texts, police files, and legal proceedings alongside contemporary African and Afro-Caribbean novels, film, and Senegalese oral history, Calhoun outlines how such aesthetic works rewrite histories of resistance and loss. Consequently, Calhoun offers a new way of writing about suicide, slavery, and coloniality in relation to literary history.
British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility
Author: B. CareyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230501621
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and humanitarian battle of the time. Examining both familiar and unfamiliar texts, including poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that salve-owners and abolitionists alike made strategic use of the rhetoric of sensibility in the hope of influencing a reading public thoroughly immersed in the 'cult of feeling'.
The Negro in English Romantic Thought; Or, A Study of Sympathy for the Oppressed
Author: Eva Beatrice DykesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Bibliographer
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The bibliographer
Author: The Bibliographer; a Journal of Book-lore
Author: Polemical Pain
Author: Margaret AbruzzoPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401274
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In 2008 and 2009, the United States Congress apologized for the “fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery.” Today no one denies the cruelty of slavery, but few issues inspired more controversy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Abolitionists denounced the inhumanity of slavery, while proslavery activists proclaimed it both just and humane. Margaret Abruzzo delves deeply into the slavery debate to better understand the nature and development of humanitarianism and how the slavery issue helped shape modern concepts of human responsibility for the suffering of others. Abruzzo first traces the slow, indirect growth in the eighteenth century of moral objections to slavery's cruelty, which took root in awareness of the moral danger of inflicting unnecessary pain. Rather than accept pain as inescapable, as had earlier generations, people fought to ease, discredit, and abolish it. Within a century, this new humanitarian sensibility had made immoral the wanton infliction of pain. Abruzzo next examines how this modern understanding of humanity and pain played out in the slavery debate. Drawing on shared moral-philosophical concepts, particularly sympathy and benevolence, pro- and antislavery writers voiced starkly opposing views of humaneness. Both sides constructed their moral identities by demonstrating their own humanity and criticizing the other’s insensitivity. Understanding this contest over the meaning of humanity—and its ability to serve varied, even contradictory purposes—illuminates the role of pain in morality. Polemical Pain shows how the debate over slavery’s cruelty played a large, unrecognized role in shaping moral categories that remain pertinent today.
Dying Negro, a Poem by the Late Thomas Day and John Bicknell. To which is Added, a Fragment of a Letter on the Slavery of the Negroes
Author: Thomas DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Guide to the Printed Materials for English Social and Economic History, 1750-1850
Author: Judith Blow WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description