Slavery, empathy, and pornography

Acknowledgments

List of plates

Introduction

1. Slavery, testimony, propaganda : John Newton, william Cowper, and compulsive confession

2. Slavery, empathy, and pornography in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam

3. William Cobbett, John Thelwall : radicalism, racism, and slavery

4. Slavery and romantic poetry

5. "Born to be a destroyer of slavery" : Harriet Martineau, fixing slavery and slavery as fix

6. Canons to the right of them, canons to the left of them : Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, and memorial subversions of slavery

7. The anatomy of bigotry : Carlyle, Ruskin, slavery, and a new language of race

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.