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Subject(s)

• Enslaved persons—United States—Illustrations [Browse]
• Slavery—United States—Illustrations [Browse]
• American literature—African American authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• American literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Slavery in literature [Browse]
• Antislavery movements in literature [Browse]

Summary note

" ... Analyzes ... works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Visualizing slavery and slave torture
• Precursors: picturing the story of slavery in broadsides, pamphlets, and early illustrated graphic works about slavery, 1793-1812
• "These loathsome pictures shall be published": reconfigurations of the optical regime of transatlantic slavery in Amelia Opie's The black man's lament (1826) and George Bourne's Picture of slavery in the United States of America (1834)
• Entering and exiting the sensorium of slave torture: a narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery (1837, 1838) and the visual culture of the slave's body in the transatlantic abolition movement
• Structuring a new abolitionist reading of masculinity and femininity: the graphic narrative systems of Lydia Maria Child's Joanna (1838) and Henry Bibb's Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself (1849)
• After Tom: illustrated books, panoramas, and the staging of the African American enslaved body in Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) and the performance work of Henry Box Brown (1849-1875)
• The end of empathy, or slavery revisited via twentieth- and twenty-first-century artworks
• Hierarchical and parallel empathy.

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ISBN

• 9780820351162 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
• 0820351164 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2016055420

OCLC

965754178

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