Slavery and sentiment : the politics of feeling in Black Atlantic antislavery writing, 1770-1850 / Christine Levecq.
"From the eighteenth century on, appeals to listeners' and readers' feelings about the sufferings of slaves were a predominant strategy of abolitionism. This book argues that expressions of feeling in those texts did not just appeal to individual readers' inclinations to sympathy...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham : Hanover :
University of New Hampshire Press ; University Press of New England,
©2008.
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| Series: | Becoming modern.
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Norlin Library - Stacks
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PS153.N5 L455 2008
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| PS153.N5 L455 2008 | Available Place a Hold |