Ancient slavery and abolition : from Hobbes to Hollywood

Ancient slavery and abolition : from Hobbes to Hollywood / edited by Edith Hall, Richard Alston, and Justine McConnell.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: University of London. Royal Holloway. Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome, British Library
Other Authors: Hall, Edith, 1959-, Alston, Richard, 1965-, McConnell, Justine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
Slavery > History > Congresses.
Antislavery movements > History > Congresses.
Classical literature > Congresses.
Abolitionists > History > Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Classical literature
Slavery
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • A valuable lesson / Edith Hall
  • The good master : Pliny, Hobbes, and the nature of freedom / Richard Alston
  • Appropriations of Spartan helotage in British anti-slavery debates of the 1790s / Stephen Hodkinson, Edith Hall
  • The influence of classical ideas on the anti-slavery debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834) / John Hilton
  • A stronger muse : classical influences on eighteenth-century abolitionist poetry / Brycchan Carey
  • The politics of classicism in the poetry of Phillis Wheatley / Emily Greenwood
  • Between victimhood and agency : Nydia the slave in Bulwer's The last days of Pompeii / Leanne Hunnings
  • The problem with Prometheus : myth, abolition, and radicalism / Edith Hall
  • Recollecting Aristotle : pro-slavery thought in antebellum America and the argument of Politics book 1 / S. Sara Monoson
  • The auctoritas of antiquity : debating slavery through classical exempla in the antebellum USA / Margaret Malamud
  • Yankee she-men and octoroon Electra : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on slavery, race, and abolition / David Lupher, Elizabeth Vandiver
  • Universal slave revolts : C.L.R. James's use of classical literature in The Black Jacobins / Lydia Langerwer
  • Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South : Odyssean slavery in Sommersby / Justine McConnell
  • Slavery, abolition, modernity, and the past / Ahuvia Kahane.

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