Abolitionist Places
From David Brion Daviss The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroys 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 approaches to examining the abolitionist Atlantic. With contributions from an international roster of historians, literary scholars, and specialists in the history of art, this book provides case studies in the connections between abolitionism and material spatial practice in literature, theory, history and memory.
This volume covers a wide range of topics and themes, including the circum-Atlantic itineraries of abolitionist artists and activists; precise locations such as Paris and Chatham, Ontario where abolitionists congregated to speculate over the future of, and hatch emigration plans to, sites in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean; and the reimagining of abolitionist places in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and public art.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
Martha Schoolman is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Miami University in Ohio, USA. Her research interests include the literature of the US abolitionist movement, and travel and geographic writing.
Jared Hickman is Assistant Professor and Director of undergraduate studies in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Quarterly, Early American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, PMLA, and The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature. He works at the intersection of race, religion, and literature. He is currently completing a book entitled Black Prometheus: Political Theologies of Atlantic Anti-slavery.
Abolitionist Places
Edited by
Martha Schoolman and Jared Hickman
First published 2013
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Contents
Martha Schoolman and Jared Hickman
W. Caleb McDaniel
Heike Paul
Tom Wickman
Sarah Thomas
Yun Kyoung Kwon
Brian Russell Roberts
Alan Rice
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Atlantic Studies. When citing this material, please use the original issue information and page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction: Abolitionist Places (originally entitled Editorial: Abolitionist Places)
Martha Schoolman and Jared Hickman
Atlantic Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (June 2011) pp. 133-140
Chapter 2
Saltwater anti-slavery: American abolitionists on the Atlantic Ocean in the Age of Steam
W. Caleb McDaniel
Atlantic Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (June 2011) pp. 141-163
Chapter 3
Out of Chatham: Abolitionism on the Canadian frontier
Heike Paul
Atlantic Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (June 2011) pp. 165-188
Chapter 4
Arithmetic and Afro-Atlantic pastoral protest: The place of (in)numeracy in Gronniosaw and Equiano
Tom Wickman
Atlantic Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (June 2011) pp. 189-212
Chapter 5
On the spot: Travelling artists and abolitionism, 17701830
Sarah Thomas
Atlantic Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (June 2011) pp. 213-232
Chapter 6
When Parisian liberals spoke for Haiti: French anti-slavery discourses on Haiti under the Restoration, 181430
Yun Kyoung Kwon
Atlantic Studies, volume 8, issue 3 (September 2011) pp. 317-341
Chapter 7
Abolitionist archipelago: Pre- and post-emancipation islands of slavery and emancipation
Brian Russell Roberts
Atlantic Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (June 2011) pp. 233-252
Chapter 8
Tracing slavery and abolitions routes and viewing inside the invisible: The monumental landscape and the African Atlantic
Alan Rice
Atlantic Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (June 2011) pp. 253-274
Jared Hickman is Assistant Professor and Director of undergraduate studies in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Quarterly, Early American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, PMLA, and The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature. He works at the intersection of race, religion, and literature. He is currently completing a book entitled Black Prometheus: Political Theologies of Atlantic Antislavery.
Yun Kyoung Kwon is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago, USA. She received her BA and MA in Modern European History from Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. Her most recent publication is Remember Saint-Domingue: Accounts of the Haitian Revolution by Refugee Planters in Paris and Colonial Debates under the Restoration, 18141825, in Frances Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia and La Fracture Coloniale, edited by Kate Marsh and Nicola Frith (Lexington Books, 2011). Her main research interests include the colonial question in the French Revolution, French abolitionism, the Haitian Revolution, and the discourses of race in post-revolutionary France. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation entitled, Ending Slavery, Narrating Emancipation: French Anti-Slavery Debate and the Legacies of the French and Haitian Revolutions, 18141848.
