British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of

Carey argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect. Examining poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that slave-owners and abolitionists alike made strategic use of the rhetoric of sensibility in the hope of influencing a reading public thoroughly immersed in the "cult of feeling."

Brycchan Carey is Senior Lecturer in English at Kingston University in London.

Acknowledgements

vi

Introduction

1

(17)

The Rhetoric of Sensibility

18

(28)

Arguing in Prose: Abolitionist Letters and Novels

46

(27)

Arguing in Verse: Abolitionist Poetry

73

(34)

`Read This, and Blush': The Pamphlet War of the 1780s

107

(37)

Feeling Out Loud: Sentimental Rhetoric in Parliament, the Pulpit, and the Court of Law

144

(42)

Conclusion: Romanticism, Revolution, and William Wilberforce's Unregarded Tears

186

(11)

Notes

197

(22)

Bibliography

219

(12)

Index

231

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British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility Writing, Sentiment and Slavery,1760-1807

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