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In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, " Apocalyptic Sentimentalism" demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite fear, especially the fear of God s wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to feel right or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God s apocalyptic vengeance and the terror that this threat inspired...