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Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination
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In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of... Read more
Introduction, SrividhyaSwaminathan, Adam R.Beach; Part 1 Invocations of “Foreign” or Captive Enslavement; Chapter 1 The Good-Treatment Debate, Comparative Slave Studies, and the “Adventures” of T.S., Adam R.Beach; Chapter 2 Love’s Slave, AmyWitherbee; Chapter 3 Defoe’s Captain Singleton, SrividhyaSwaminathan; Part 2 Political Invocations of Slavery and Liberty; Chapter 4, JeffreyGalbraith; Chapter 5 Hannah More’s Slavery and James Thomson’s Liberty, Brett D.Wilson; Part 3 Invocations of Slavery in British Systems of Servitude; Chapter 6 “Servants Have the Worser Lives”, LauraMartin; Chapter 7 Indentured Servitude as Colonial America’s “Semi-Slavery Business” in Sally Gunning’s Bound, AnnCampbell; Chapter 8 Slavey, or the New Drudge, RoxannWheeler; Chapter 101 Review Essay, GeorgeBoulukos;
Biography
Srividhya Swaminathan is Associate Professor of English at Long Island University, USA, and Adam R. Beach is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, USA.
A Baker & Taylor Academic Essentials Title in Area/Ethnic Studies: Black Studies outside the U.S.
