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Contents Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: Bearing Witness: Memory, Theatricality, the Body, and Slave Testimony 1 2 Abolitionist Discourse: A Transatlantic Context 16 Abolitionist Discourse and Romanticism 21 Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in England 25 African Humanity and the Possibility of Rage in Edgeworth, Cowper, and Opie 42 On Whiteness and Humanity: The Example of Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” 59 Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in the U.S. 62 Emerson and the Fugitive Slave Law: Toward a Theory of Whiteness 67 Troping the Slave: Margaret Fuller’s Review of Douglass’s Narrative 75 The Body as Evidence: Garrison’s Defense of David Walker’s Appeal 78 3 “I Know What a Slave Knows”: Mary Prince as Witness, or the Rhetorical Uses of Experience 85 4 Appropriating the Word: Phillis Wheatley, Religious Rhetoric, and the Poetics of Liberation 103 5 Speaking as “the African”: Olaudah Equiano’s Moral Argument against Slavery 120 6 Consider the Audience: Witnessing to the Discursive Reader in Douglass’s Narrative 151 Afterword 173 Notes 177 Bibliography 191 Index 201 About the Author 207 ix ...