Table des matières

Contributors

Manisha Sinha

Preface

Michaël Roy et Claire Parfait

Introduction

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol

The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Afterlives in North American Abolitionist Print Culture

• The global context: banning the slave trade in the Americas and Europe, 1774-1860
• Benezet and the anti-slave trade argument in North America: the late colonial period
• A persistent theme in early white and black antislavery literature: the “founding” period, 1776-1808
• The 1808 slave trade ban, black abolitionist literature, and an “African” identity

Claire Bourhis-Mariotti

African American Emigrationists and the Voluntary Emigration Movement to Haiti, 1804-1862

• The emergence of “colonization” and the growing interest for Haiti as a place of settlement for free and emancipated blacks
• The first wave of emigration to Haiti in the 1820s
• From Colored Conventions to Emigration Conventions: debating colonization and emigration in the antebellum era
• Two convergent projects meet: Holly’s Haitian Mission and Redpath’s Haytian Bureau of Emigration

Sandrine Ferré-Rode

Competing Narratives

The Underground Railroad to Canada in Historiographical Perspective

• Porous borders, white agency, and the historiography of the Underground Railroad
• The black experience in Canada beyond the Underground Railroad
• Selective memory: Canada’s erasure of its slave past

Claire Parfait

Fiction and the Debate over Slavery

• Antislavery fiction before Uncle Tom’s Cabin: an overview
• Antislavery novels
• “The Story of the Age”: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Authorial strategies
• Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Pre-Civil War novels by African Americans

Michaël Roy

“Printers were almost afraid to set up the types”

Publishing and Circulating Antislavery Literature in Antebellum America

• “The servile publishers of that day”: abolition, publishing, and censorship
• “The general diffusion of abolition light”: abolitionist infrastructures of print

Yohanna Alimi-Levy

“The spirit of the age is on our side”

1848 and the Abolitionist Cause in France, the United States and Great Britain

• The French abolition of 1848 and its British influences
• The British reaction to the French abolition decree
• American abolitionists and the French abolition

Hélène Quanquin

Abolition and Women’s Rights Before and After the Civil War

Continuities and Discontinuities

• Blacks’ rights v. women’s rights: the “rupturing of Garrisonian abolitionism” after the Civil War
• “The midwife of women’s activism”: abolitionism and the women’s rights movement before the Civil War

Bibliography