The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora.

This volume approaches the history of slave testimony in three ways: by prioritising the broad tradition over individual authors; by representing inter-discipli

Rather than categorizing Romantic literature as resistant to, complicit with, or ambivalent about the workings of empire, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination v

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers—enslaved and free—allied themse