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British Slavery: Speech, Writing, Memory

The new books by Brycchan Carey and Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace appeared in print just in advance of this year’s two-hundredth anniversary of the passage of the Abolition Act. Carey’s British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility is obviously most immediately connected to and conscious of the Wilberforce moment in abolition studies. The British Slave Trade and Public Memory is more concerned with millennial recoveries of and responses to the historical past. Between the two books, readers have an opportunity to gain a long view on the public cultures of slavery and abolition. If Carey explores how Britons spoke about slavery in the past, Wallace aims to articulate the means through which those past understandings have been transmitted to—or obscured from—contemporary generations.