Spectacular suffering : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic /
"An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a mea...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2016]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery"--Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813938431 0813938430 |