| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850. By Christine Levecq. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2008. xiv, 306 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-734-7.)

The title of Christine Levecq's study suggests that she will explore how black antislavery writers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean used sentiment to persuade readers to denounce slavery. But Levecq moves away from this familiar agenda to demonstrate how antislavery black writers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries exploited sympathy to express broad political perspectives and particular social visions. She further highlights the difference between the ways black abolitionist authors in Britain and those in North America understood and used political ideas; she hopes that this "transnational perspective" will provide "a new paradigm for the study of African American and Afro-British texts" (p. 246). Finally, she argues that some of these writers provided "an original and radical extension" of cultural ideas, "thanks to ... a unique, republican-inspired black cosmopolitanism" (p. 3).

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