British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhe

This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of t

In the first book to investigate in detail the origins of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends, Brycchan Carey shows how the Quakers t

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and ca

This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art, poetry, and literature, to