Acknowledgements

For their helpful comments on drafts of this essay, I would like to thank Matt Childs, Tiffany Florvil, Margaret Gillikin, Lawrence Glickman, Ramon Jackson, Sarah Scripps, Mark M. Smith, Tara Strauch and Ann Tucker. Thanks also to editor Gad Heuman and the Slavery & Abolition staff for their assistance in preparing this article, and to the anonymous reader for insightful comments and suggestions. I presented an earlier version at the 2012 meeting of the American Historical Association. Many thanks to Seymour Drescher and Srividhya Swaminathan, as well as members of the audience, for their perceptive questions and comments. I also presented a preliminary version in 2011 at the Conference on Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern World, arranged by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and hosted by the University of Western Australia. My sincere thanks to participants and audience members at that superb event, and to the University of Western Australia and the University of South Carolina for helping to defray the expenses of attending that conference.