The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800–1852

Synopsis

... Analyzes ... Works In The Archive Of Antislavery Illustrated Books Published From 1800 To 1852 Alongside Other Visual Materials That Depict Enslavement-- Visualizing Slavery And Slave Torture -- Precursors: Picturing The Story Of Slavery In Broadsides, Pamphlets, And Early Illustrated Graphic Works About Slavery, 1793-1812 -- These Loathsome Pictures Shall Be Published: Reconfigurations Of The Optical Regime Of Transatlantic Slavery In Amelia Opie's The Black Man's Lament (1826) And George Bourne's Picture Of Slavery In The United States Of America (1834) -- Entering And Exiting The Sensorium Of Slave Torture: A Narrative Of The Adventures And Escape Of Moses Roper, From American Slavery (1837, 1838) And The Visual Culture Of The Slave's Body In The Transatlantic Abolition Movement -- Structuring A New Abolitionist Reading Of Masculinity And Femininity: The Graphic Narrative Systems Of Lydia Maria Child's Joanna (1838) And Henry Bibb's Narrative Of The Life And Adventures Of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself (1849) -- After Tom: Illustrated Books, Panoramas, And The Staging Of The African American Enslaved Body In Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) And The Performance Work Of Henry Box Brown (1849-1875) -- The End Of Empathy, Or Slavery Revisited Via Twentieth- And Twenty-first-century Artworks -- Hierarchical And Parallel Empathy. Martha J. Cutter. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.