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Blind memory : visual representations of slavery in England and America, 1780-1865
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- Creator
- Marcus Wood
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Routledge edition
- New York : Routledge, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415926973, 0415926971, 9780415926980, 041592698X
- OCLC
- ocm43333534
- Previously published: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, c1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-332) and index.
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The irrecoverable: representing the 'middle passage' -- 3. Rhetoric and the runaway: the iconography of slave escape in England and America -- 4. Beyond the cover: Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery as global entertainment -- 5. Representing pain and describing torture: slavery, punishment and martyrology -- 6. Conclusion