Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World

Beth Wilson is a BA-funded Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, specialising in the history of slavery in the US South and the history of emotions.Emily West is Professor of American History at the University of Oxford, UK, specialising in the history of slavery, gender, and women in the antebellum US South.

• Introduction 1. The Poison Pen: Slavery, Poison and Fear in the Antebellum Press 2. The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba. 3. ‘Happiness in Havana? Dia de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba 4. “Horrible enough to stir a man’s soul”: Enslaved Men, Emotions, and Heterosexual Intimacy in the Antebellum US South 5. “Her Work of Love”: Forced Separations, Maternal Grief, and Enslaved Mothers’ Emotional Practices in the Antebellum US South 6. “She died from grief”: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisement 7. Trials of Enslavers in Former French Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Testimonies of the Enslaved between Gratitude and Fear 8. Enslavement, Emotions and Oppositional Insolence in the Slave Society of British Guiana 9. ‘Memory, Trauma and ‘Affective Autonomy’: Displaying Emotion and Trauma at the International Slavery Museum 10. ‘Whose Emotions?’