Table of Contents

Introduction
Emancipation Art, Fanon and the `Butchery of Freedom' - Marcus Wood
The Afterlives of Three-fingered Jack - Diana Paton
Putting Down Rebellion. Witnessing the Body of the Condemned in Abolition-era Narratives - Sarah Salih
The Horror of Hybridity: Enlightenment, Anti-slavery and Racial Disgust in Charlotte Smith's Story of Henrietta (1800) - George Boulukos
"To Rivet and to Record": Conversion and Collective Memory in Equiano's `Interesting Narrative' - Lincoln Shlensky
Henry Smeathman and the Natural Economy of Slavery - Deirdre Coleman
Slavery, Blackness and Islam: The Arabian Nights in the Eighteenth Century - Felicity Nussbaum
Slavery and Sensibility: A Historical Dilemma - Gerald Maclean
`Go West Old Woman': The Radical Re-visioning of Slave History in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River - Mararoula Joannou