1st Edition
Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World
Introduction
Beth R. Wilson and Emily West
Part I: Slavery’s Emotional Politics, Regimes, and Refuges
1. The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison and Fear in the Antebellum Press
Erin Austin Dwyer
2. The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba
Liana Beatrice Valerio
3. ‘Happiness in Havana? Dia de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba
Will Perez
Part II: Enslaved Relationships and Affective Ties in the U.S.
4. “Horrible enough to stir a man’s soul”: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum US South
Kaisha Esty
5. “Her Work of Love”: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South
Beth R. Wilson
6. “She died from grief”: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements
Katherine Burns
Part III: Enslaved People’s Emotional Vocabularies and Expressions
7. Trials of Enslavers in Former French Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Testimonies of the Enslaved between Gratitude and Fear
Teresa Göltl
8. Enslavement, Emotions and Oppositional Insolence in the Slave Society of British Guiana
Gordon Gill
Part IV: Emotions and the Afterlives of Slavery
9. ‘Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum
Matthew Jones
10. ‘Whose Emotions?’
Hannah Cusworth
Biography
Beth Wilson is a BA-funded Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, specialising in the history of slavery in the US South and the history of emotions.
Emily West is Professor of American History at the University of Oxford, UK, specialising in the history of slavery, gender, and women in the antebellum US South.
