Alongside Slavery's Asides: Reverberations of Edward Young's The Revenge
In an 1847 lecture before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, William Wells Brown stated: “Were I about to tell you the evils of Slavery, to represent to you the Slave in his lowest degradation, I should wish to take you, one at a time, and whisper it to you. Slavery has never been represented; Slavery never can be represented.” In these oft-cited lines, Wells Brown makes a strong claim for the absolute impossibility of representing slavery. But I wish to pause and stay with his earlier suggestion that it might just be possible to tell about slavery in a whisper. Breaking through the fastidiousness of the audience, a whisper can bring the condition of slavery close.
1984 ◽
Vol 42
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pp. 282-283
1981 ◽
Vol 39
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pp. 454-455
1990 ◽
Vol 48
(2)
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pp. 500-501
2000 ◽
Vol 105
(A1)
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pp. 385-394
1998 ◽
Vol 31
(2)
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pp. 418A
1980 ◽
Vol 41
(C1)
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pp. C1-109-C1-110
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