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Representing the Body of the Slave [Kõva köide]

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The International Centre for the History of Slavery held the first of a planned series of international and interdisciplinary conferences in Nottingham in September 2000. Historians, classicists, archaeologists, and area scholars from around the world present 11 papers from it exploring the representation of slave bodies in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, North American and the Caribbean, and Brazil. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of Figures and Tables
vii
Preface ix
Introduction 1(10)
Thomas Wiedemann
Jane Gardner
THE ANCIENT WORLD
Inverted Kalokagathia
11(18)
Ingomar Weiler
Seeing Things: Examining the Body of the Slave in Greek Medicine
29(12)
Niall McKeown
Slave Disguise in Ancient Rome
41(16)
Michele George
BETWEEN ANCIENT AND MODERN
Representing the Slave's Body in Ottoman Society
57(18)
Ehud R. Toledano
The Image of the Slave in Some Anglo-Saxon and Norse Sources
75(16)
David Pelteret
NORTH AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SLAVERY
`Arms Like Polished Iron': The Black Slave Body in Narratives of a Slave Ship Revolt
91(16)
Celeste-Marie Bernier
`An Outrage on all Decency': Abolitionist Reactions to Flogging Jamaican Slave Women, 1780-1834
107(18)
Henrice Altink
BRAZIL
Customs and Costumes: Carlos Juliao and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil
125(22)
Silvia Hunold Lara
African Abrahams, Lucretias and Men of Sorrows: Allegory and Allusion in the Brazilian Anti-slavery Lithographs (1827-1835) of Johann Moritz Rugendas
147(22)
Robert W. Slenes
Brazilian Slaves Represented in their Own Words
169(18)
Robert Krueger
Notes on Contributors 187(2)
Index 189


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