Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-century American Literature
Incendiary Pictures

This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of 'free labour' in mid-nineteenth-century America.

This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America.

Introduction
The Emergence of the Family Politics Campaign and Antislavery Sentimentality
Marketplace Politics in The Scarlet Letter
Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State
The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace: E.D.E.N. Southworth's Southern Reforms
'The White Slave of the North': Lowell Mill Women and the Evolution of 'Free Labour'
The End of Antislavery Sentimentality: Frederick Douglass's Post-Civil War Performance of Masculinity