Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 4

Writings in the British Romantic Period

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-05-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt:940 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138757400

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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Note on copy texts -- Thomas Chatterton, ‘Heccar and Gaira an African Ecologue’ (1770) -- Thomas Day and John Bicknell, The Dying Negro, a Poetical Epistle (1773) -- Bryan Edwards, ‘The Negro’s Dying Speech on his Being Executed for Rebellion in the Island of Jamaica’ (1777) -- Hugh Mulligan, ‘The Lovers, an African Ecologue’ (1784) -- Edward Rushton, West-Indian Ecologues (1787) -- Eliza Knipe, ‘Atomboka and Omaza; an African Story’ (1787) -- William Cowper, ‘The Negro’s Complaint’, ‘Pity for Poor Africans’, ‘The Morning Dream’, and ‘Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce’ (1788) -- Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave-Trade (1788) -- William Roscoe and James Currie, ‘The African’ (1788) -- Robert Merry, ‘The Slaves. An Elegy’ (1789) -- Hannah More, Slavery, A Poem (1788) -- Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity o f the Slave-Trade (1788) -- William Blake, ‘The Little Black Boy’ (1789) -- Anna Letitia Barbauld, Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection o f the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (1791) -- James Boswell, No Abolition o f Slavery; or the Universal Empire o f Love: A Poem (1791) -- William Lisle Bowles, ‘The African’ (1791)