German Abolitionism: Kotzebue and the Transnational Debate on Slavery

German Abolitionism: Kotzebue and the Transnational Debate on Slavery

<p>This essay challenges the notion of an absence of German abolitionist awareness in Europe during the Age of Enlightenment. Furthermore, it highlights the lack of a scholarly engagement with historical German debates on slavery and abolition in the media and the public sphere. In this regard...

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Main Author: Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
Subjects:
keywords: plantation slavery, antislavery, abolitionism, theater, transnational american studies, intertextuality, german abolitionist discourse, kotzebue, black bodies, eighteenth century, gender
Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rm531sh

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