Slavery And Sentiment Analysis

In her work from 2008, Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic, Christine Levecq articulates the inherent political perspectives and particular social visions of selected abolitionist authors. The author disregards the familiar agenda of exploring how black antislavery writers used antislavery sentiment on both sides of the ocean. Her analysis seeks to show how the interdependence of the political and the emotional in these antislavery texts can be, “traced in allusions to individual freedom, or the common good, to interpersonal exchange or communal consciousness, to interiorities or bodies” . Thusly, according to Levecq depending on time and place, the antislavery writings exhibit varying degrees of liberal and republican