The slave in European art: from renaissance trophy to abolitionist emblem

Contents

1. Introduction: reality and metaphor: -- Caryatids, page boys, and African fetters: themes of slavery in European art / Elizabeth McGrath -- Allegory and ambiguity in Michelangelo's 'Slaves' / Charles Robertson -- L'esclavage comme métaphore religieuse dans l'iconographie de l'ordre des Trinitaires / Jean-Luc Liez -- 2. Galley slaves and Moorish captives: -- The iconography of Mediterranean slavery in the seventeenth century / Jean Michel Massing -- Messina 1535 to Lepanto 1571: Vasari, Borghini and the imagery of the Moors, Barbarians and Turks / Rick Scorza -- From Borgo Pinti to Doccia: the afterlife of Pietro Tacca's Moors for Livorno / Anthea Brook -- 3. Europe, the Americas and the slave trade: -- The urban slave in Spain and New Spain / Carmen Fracchia -- Black slavery and the 'mulatto escape hatch' in the Brazilian ensembles of Frans Post and Albert Eckhout / Ernst van den Boogart -- Becoming human: the iconography of black slavery in French, British and Dutch book illustrations c. 1600-c. 1800 / Elmer Kolfin -- 4. Abolitionism and its critics: -- George Morland's 'Slave Trade' and 'African Hospitality': slavery, sentiment and the limits of the abolitionist image / Meredith Gamer -- 'They are happy people': some newly identified pro-slavery caricatures from the age of abolition / David Bindman -- Abolitionists, African diplomats and 'the Black Joke' in George Cruikshank's The New Union Club / Temi Odumosu.