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Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals): British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834 book cover

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Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals) British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834

By Moira Ferguson Copyright 1992
482 Pages
by Routledge

482 Pages
by Routledge

482 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then chronicles writings by Anglo-Saxon women and one African-Caribbean ex-slave woman, from between 1670 and... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Phase One:  1. Colonial Slavery and Protest: Text and Context  2. Oroonoko: Birth of a Paradigm  3. Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women: Displacements, Colonialism, Anti-Slavery  4. Inkle and Yarico: an Anti-Slavery Reading  5. Sentiment and Amelioration  6. Emerging Resistance;  Phase Two  7. The Parliamentary Campaign: New Debates  8. The Radical Impulse: Before the French Revolution  9. The Radical Impulse: After the French Revolution  10. Reactions to San Domingo (1): Cheap Repository Tracts  11. Reactions to San Domingo (2) Sentiment, Suicide, and Patriotism  12. Women in the Provinces and Across the Irish Sea: Explosion of Agitation  13. Extending Discourse and Changing Definitions  14. Conclusion;  Notes;  Selected Bibliography;  Index

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