British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility : Writing, Sentiment and Slavery, 1760-1807 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism a

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and humanitarian battle of the time.