Ancient Slavery and Abolition

1. Introduction: 'A Valuable Lesson' 2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom 3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the 1790s 4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834) 5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry 6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley 7. Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer's 'The Last Days of Pompeii' 8. The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism 9. Recollecting Aristotle: Proslavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I 10. The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA 11. Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition 12. Universal Slave Revolts: C.L.R. James' use of Classical Literature in 'The Black Jacobins' 13. Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in 'Sommersby' Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past

Agency (philosophy · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Classicism · Hollywood · Literature · Modernity · Poetry · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Philosophy · Abolitionists · Antislavery movements · Classical literature · Congresses · Slavery · Sources

• Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840

  Open Access•Mark Towsey•Reading History in Britain and…•2019

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• Literary Evidence

  Sonia Sabnis•The Oxford Handbook of Greek and…•2021

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• The Bitter Chain of Slavery

  Open Access•Keith Bradley•Dialogues d histoire ancienne•2015

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• Racialized Commodities

  Christopher Stedman Parmenter•Racialized Commodities•2024

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