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Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-atlantic, 1770-1830

Product Description: At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case. This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of transatlantic slavery...read more

By Stephen Ahern (editor)

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9781409455615 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case.

Afterimages of Slavery: Essays on Appearances in Recent American Films, Literature, Television and Other Media

Product Description: Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a "post-racial America," a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The new essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries...read more

By Seretha D. Williams (editor)

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9780786464647 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 12, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a "post-racial America," a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased.

American Slavery: A Historical Exploration of Literature

Product Description: Slavery is a central feature of American history, one with which the nation still has not come fully to terms. In this book, that seminal topic is examined in a fresh wayâthrough literature. Organized chronologically to show evolving attitudes toward American slavery in the 19th century, the work focuses on four key 19th-century texts that are frequently taught, using them as a gateway for understanding this critical period and why slavery had to be destroyed if the Union was to be maintained...read more

By Robert Felgar

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9781610696470 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 25, 2014, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Slavery is a central feature of American history, one with which the nation still has not come fully to terms.

Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.s. Antebellum Literature

Product Description: In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming oppositeâfear, especially the fear of Godâs wrath...read more

By Kevin Pelletier

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9780820339481 | Univ of Georgia Pr, January 15, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming oppositeâfear, especially the fear of Godâs wrath.

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9780345327307, titled "How to Get People to Do Things" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1996), cover price $5.99 | also contains How to Get People to Do Things | About this edition: Why have so many people all over the world taken Robert Conklin's Adventures in Attitudes seminars?

Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death

By Mary Nyquist

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9780226015538 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 10, 2013, cover price $45.00

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9780226271798 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, February 24, 2015), cover price $27.00

Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic

By Stefan M. Wheelock

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9780813937984 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 8, 2015, cover price $69.50

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9780813937991 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 8, 2015, cover price $29.50

Bernard Shaw: Slaves of Duty and Tricks of the Governing Class

By Bernard F. Dukore

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9780944318461 | Elt Pr, September 12, 2012, cover price $60.00

Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816-1861

By Keith Michael Green

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9780817318833 | Univ of Alabama Pr, October 15, 2015, cover price $49.95

The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Toni Morrison. Accessible to students and academics alike, this Companion surveys the critical landscape of a major field and lays the foundations for future studies.

By Ezra Tawil (editor)

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9781107048768 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2016, cover price $89.99

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9781107625983 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2016, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Caryl Phillips

Product Description: Helen Thomas examines the ways in which Caribbean/British novelist and playwright, Caryl Phillips responds both creatively and critically to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal, racism and economic colonial exploitation in particularly in Higher Ground(1989) his panoramic account of the black diaspora which spans 200 years and moves between Africa, The USA and Britain...read more

By Helen Thomas

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9780746311240 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, December 31, 2006, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Helen Thomas examines the ways in which Caribbean/British novelist and playwright, Caryl Phillips responds both creatively and critically to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal, racism and economic colonial exploitation in particularly in Higher Ground(1989) his panoramic account of the black diaspora which spans 200 years and moves between Africa, The USA and Britain.

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9780746309568 | New edition (Northcote House Pub Ltd, November 15, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines the ways in which Phillips responds to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal, racism and economic exploitation.

Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery

By Abigail Ward

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9780719082757 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $95.00

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9780719097645 | Manchester Univ Pr, July 1, 2015, cover price $30.95

Deconstruction II

Product Description: An Architectural Digest profile addressing the question: Is deconstructionist architecture possible?

By Peter Eisenman and Hiromi Fujii

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9780312031596 | John Wiley & Son Ltd, October 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | also contains War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature | About this edition: An Architectural Digest profile addressing the question: Is deconstructionist architecture possible?

Facing Diasporic Trauma: Self-representation in the Writings of John Hearne, Caryl Phillips, and Fred DÂaguiar

By Fatim Boutros

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9789004308145, titled "Facing Diasporic Trauma: Self-Representation in the Writings of John Hearne, Caryl Phillips, and Fred DâAguiar" | Rodopi Bv Editions, November 13, 2015, cover price $61.00

Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves: Women Writers and French Colonial Slavery

Product Description: Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves brings to life the unique contribution by French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery. The book enriches our understanding of French and Atlantic history in the revolutionary and postrevolutionary years when Haiti was menaced with the re-establishment of slavery and when class, race, and gender identities were being renegotiated...read more

By Doris Y. Kadish

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9781846318467 | Liverpool Univ Pr, February 15, 2013, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves brings to life the unique contribution by French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery.

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9781781381137 | Liverpool Univ Pr, November 1, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves brings to life the unique contribution by French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery.

From Shakespeare to Obama: A Study in Language, Slavery, and Place

By Jonathan Hart

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9781137375810, titled "From Shakespeare to Obama: A Study in Language, Slavery and Place" | Palgrave Macmillan, December 18, 2013, cover price $100.00

The Fugitive Slave Law in The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: American Society Transforms Its Culture

Product Description: This book shows how the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe incited people to break the Fugitive Slave Law and free black slaves. This book shows how abolitionists used rhetoric and discourse, rather than violence, to change opinions about slavery...read more

By Gerardo Del Guercio and Robert T. Tally, Jr. (foreword by)

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9780773445185 | Edwin Mellen Pr, February 28, 2013, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This book shows how the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe incited people to break the Fugitive Slave Law and free black slaves.

GRATEFUL SLAVE: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-century British and American Culture

By George Boulukos

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9780521885713, titled "The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture" | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $99.99

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9780521188661, titled "The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture" | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 26, 2012), cover price $44.99

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin

Product Description: Harriet Beecher Stowes popular book Uncle Toms Cabin had a huge effect on the abolitionist movement. Learn more in this book complete with timeline, primary sources, photographs, and excerpts from the time period.

By Susan Dudley Gold

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9781502605283 | Cavendish Square, August 1, 2015, cover price $34.21 | About this edition: Harriet Beecher Stowes popular book Uncle Toms Cabin had a huge effect on the abolitionist movement.

How to Get People to Do Things

Product Description: Why have so many people all over the world taken Robert Conklin's Adventures in Attitudes seminars?Because his warm, practical methods not only work, they also promote better, more fulfulling human relationships!Now, you can get the best of the these seminars and more!How Do You Get...read more

By Robert Conklin

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9780809273584 | Contemporary Books, April 1, 1979, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Advocates fulfilling the desires of others as a way of motivating people in business and personal relations and offers advice on breaking down interpersonal resistance

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9780345327307 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1996), cover price $5.99 | also contains Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.s. Antebellum Literature | About this edition: Why have so many people all over the world taken Robert Conklin's Adventures in Attitudes seminars?

Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-century British Imagination

By Adam R. Beach (editor)

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9781409469988 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 28, 2013, cover price $149.95

The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature

Product Description: In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique "culture of slavery." That culture exists as a metaphorical, artistic, and literary tradition attached to the enslaved - human beings whose lives are "owed" to another, who are used as instruments by another, and who must endure suffering in silence...read more

By Tim Armstrong

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9781107025073 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 27, 2012, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique "culture of slavery.

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9781107607811 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 27, 2012, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique "culture of slavery.

Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century New Jersey

Product Description: Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries...read more

By Kenneth E. Marshall

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9781580463935 | Univ of Rochester Pr, November 15, 2011, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries.

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9781580464352 | Reprint edition (Univ of Rochester Pr, August 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries.

New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts: The Ghost and the Camp

Product Description: This book studies literary and visual representations of the many and diverse forms of slavery in Britain produced by globalisation since the early 1990s. It focuses on a wide range of works, from Ruth Rendell's pioneering crime novel Simisola through to the many authors who concentrated on Britain's new slaves in the first decade of the twenty-first century...read more

By Pietro Deandrea

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9780719096433 | Manchester Univ Pr, April 1, 2015, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This book studies literary and visual representations of the many and diverse forms of slavery in Britain produced by globalisation since the early 1990s.

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9780382242632, titled "The Israelites" | Silver Burdett Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $11.00 | also contains The Israelites

Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-century America

By Tess Chakkalakal

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9780252036330 | Univ of Illinois Pr, July 19, 2011, cover price $40.00

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9780252079047 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $25.00

Plautus and Roman Slavery

Product Description: This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquityâs first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study slavery â and not simply masters or slaves â we need to see the interactions of individuals who speak to each other, a rare kind of evidence from the ancient world...read more

By Roberta Stewart

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9781405196284 | Blackwell Pub, May 29, 2012, cover price $98.95 | About this edition: This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquityâs first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce.

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