From the ancient world through to modern times the bodies of slaves have been represented in literature, documentary and personal narrative writing, and in art. This volume presents evidence of the past sins of mankind in both art and literature.
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How the bodies of slaves are pictured in art and written or spoken about is revealing of the attitudes of those who were depicting them, often with the intention of influencing the attitudes of others. Slaves could be presented as inferior to free people, and almost subhuman. Conversely, emphasis could be laid upon their essential humanity and even nobility. This book looks at examples of the physical depiction of slaves, from the ancient and medieval worlds and from slave societies of more recent times in the Americas and the Caribbean. Pictures, literature and documentary accounts by former slaves present different views of the slave. Only in some of these is a colour factor; rather, it is the status of the slave that makes the difference.
Wiedemann is Professor of Latin at the University of Nottingham.
Jane studied under former poet laureate Bill Manhire.
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