Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood

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Cover Contents List of Contributors List of Illustrations 1. Introduction: ‘AValuable Lesson’ 2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom 3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Anti-Slavery Debates of the 1790s 4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795–1834) 5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry 6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley 7. Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer’s The Last Days of Pompeii 8. The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism 9. Recollecting Aristotle: Pro-Slavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I 10. The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA 11. Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition 12. Universal Slave Revolts: C. L. R. James’s Use of Classical Literature in The Black Jacobins 13. Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in Sommersby Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past Consolidated Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z