Ancient Slavery and Abolition

Zusatztext In general, by its range of topics and insightful analysis of different sources, the book will surely give new impetus to reception studies. Informationen zum Autor Edith Hall is Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London. Richard Alston is Professor of Roman History, Royal Holloway University of London. Edith Hall is Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London Justine McConnell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Edith Hall: Introduction: 'A Valuable Lesson' 2: Richard Alston: The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom 3: Stephen Hodkinson and Edith Hall: Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the 1790s 4: John Hilton: The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834) 5: Brycchan Carey: A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry 6: Emily Greenwood: The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley 7: Leanne Hunnings: Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer's `The Last Days of Pompeii' 8: Edith Hall: The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism 9: S. Sara Monoson: Recollecting Aristotle: Proslavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I 10: Margaret Malamud: The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA 11: David Lupher and Elizabeth Vandiver: Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition 12: Lydia Langerwerf: Universal Slave Revolts: C.L.R. James' use of Classical Literature in `The Black Jacobins' 13: Justine McConnell: Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in `Sommersby' Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past ...

Autorentext
Edith Hall is Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London. Richard Alston is Professor of Roman History, Royal Holloway University of London. Edith Hall is Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London Justine McConnell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
1: Edith Hall: Introduction: 'A Valuable Lesson'
2: Richard Alston: The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom
3: Stephen Hodkinson and Edith Hall: Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the 1790s
4: John Hilton: The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834)
5: Brycchan Carey: A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry
6: Emily Greenwood: The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
7: Leanne Hunnings: Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer's `The Last Days of Pompeii'
8: Edith Hall: The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism
9: S. Sara Monoson: Recollecting Aristotle: Proslavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I
10: Margaret Malamud: The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA
11: David Lupher and Elizabeth Vandiver: Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition
12: Lydia Langerwerf: Universal Slave Revolts: C.L.R. James' use of Classical Literature in `The Black Jacobins'
13: Justine McConnell: Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in `Sommersby'
Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past

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