Representing the Body of the Slave

University of Nottingham., Universities of Reading and Nottingham.

• Introduction, Thomas Wiedemann and Jane Gardner. Part 1 The ancient world: inverted kalokagathia, Ingomar Weiler; seeing things - examining the body of the slave in Greek medicine, Niall McKeown; slave disguise in ancient Rome, Michele George. Part 2 Between ancient and modern: representing the slave's body in Ottoman society, Ehud R. Toledano; the image of the slave in some Anglo-Saxon and Norse sources, David Pelteret. Part 3 North American and Caribbean slavery: arms like polished iron - the black slave boy in narratives in a slave ship revolt, Celeste-Marie Bernier; an outrage on all decency - abolitionist reactions to flogging Jamaican slave women, 1780-1834, Henrice Altink; customs and costumes - Carlos Juliao and the image of black slaves in late 18th-century Brazil, 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, Robert W. Slenes; Brazilian slaves represented in their own words, Robert Krueger.