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Title Ancient slavery and abolition : from Hobbes to Hollywood / edited by Edith Hall, Richard Alston, and Justine McConnell
Published Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 509 pages) : illustrations
Series Classical presences
Classical presences.
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
Summary "Originating in a conference organised in 2007 by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway, University of London, and held at the British Library ... this accessible volume offers a pathbreaking study of the role played by the interpreters of ancient Greek and roman texts in the debates over the abolition of slavery. Focusing on Britain, North America, the Caribbean, and South Africa from the late 17th century, the essays examine the arguments of critics and defenders of slavery and legacy of slavery, in later periods."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Slavery -- History -- Congresses
Antislavery movements -- History -- Congresses
Classical literature -- Congresses
Abolitionists -- History -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Classical literature
Slavery
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Hall, Edith, 1959-
Alston, Richard, 1965-
McConnell, Justine.
University of London. Royal Holloway. Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome
British Library.
ISBN 9780191617973
0191617970
9780191728723
0191728721