ISBN:
9780191617973
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (528 pages)
Series Statement:
Classical Presences Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.362
Keywords:
Slavery -- History -- Congresses
;
Antislavery movements -- History -- Congresses
;
Classical literature -- Congresses
;
Abolitionists -- History -- Congresses
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A collection of essays by an international team of scholars on the part played by classical sources and images in the debates around the abolition of slavery. It shows that the ancient Greek and Roman slave was invoked both by abolitionists and by those who promoted and attempted to justify the custom.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction: 'AValuable Lesson' -- 2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom -- 3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Anti-Slavery Debates of the 1790s -- 4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834) -- 5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry -- 6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley -- 7. Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer's The Last Days of Pompeii -- 8. The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism -- 9. Recollecting Aristotle: Pro-Slavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I -- 10. The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA -- 11. Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition -- 12. Universal Slave Revolts: C. L. R. James's Use of Classical Literature in The Black Jacobins -- 13. Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in Sommersby -- Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past -- Consolidated Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
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