1st Edition

Abolitionist Places

Edited By Martha Schoolman, Jared Hickman Copyright 2013
180 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic , some of the most influential conceptualizations of the Atlantic World have taken the movements of individuals and transnational organizations working to advocate the abolition of slavery as their material basis. This unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays provides diverse new... Read more

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

Biography

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.