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This unique interdisciplinary collection newly approaches the Atlantic scope of the century-long process of abolishing slavery in the western hemisphere, focusing on the connections between abolitionism and material spatial practice in literature, theory, history, and memory.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
List of contents
1. Introduction: Abolitionist Places Martha Schoolman and Jared Hickman 2. Saltwater anti-slavery: American abolitionists on the Atlantic Ocean in the Age of Steam W. Caleb McDaniel 3. Out of Chatham: Abolitionism on the Canadian frontier Heike Paul 4. Arithmetic and Afro-Atlantic pastoral protest: The place of (in)numeracy in Gronniosaw and Equiano Tom Wickman 5. "On the spot": Travelling artists and abolitionism, 1770-1830 Sarah Thomas 6. When Parisian liberals spoke for Haiti: French anti-slavery discourses on Haiti under the Restoration, 1814-30 Yun Kyoung Kwon 7. Abolitionist archipelago: Pre- and post-emancipation islands of slavery and emancipation Brian Russell Roberts 8. Tracing slavery and abolition’s routes and viewing inside the invisible: The monumental landscape and the African Atlantic Alan Rice
About the author
Martha Schoolman is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Miami University in Ohio, USA. Her research interests include the literature of the U.S. abolitionist movement and travel and geographic writing.
Jared Hickman is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University, USA. His research interests include the theology of democracy, race as modern cosmography and transnational American studies.
Summary
This unique interdisciplinary collection newly approaches the Atlantic scope of the century-long process of abolishing slavery in the western hemisphere, focusing on the connections between abolitionism and material spatial practice in literature, theory, history, and memory. This book was originally published as a special issue of
