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Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815

Title
Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 / Srividhya Swaminathan.
Author
Swaminathan, Srividhya.
Publication
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

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Description
xiii, 245 p. : ill., plans; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
Uniform Title
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
Subject
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Slavery in literature
  • Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 18th century
  • Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • English language > 18th century > Rhetoric
  • English language > 19th century > Rhetoric
  • Antislavery movements in literature
  • Slave trade in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Building a common vocabulary: the language of reform and the slave-trade debates -- Converging arguments in British resistance: writing from the colonies to Great Britain, 1759-1776 -- Proliferating antislavery arguments and the creation of an activist community, 1772-1789 -- The proslavery rebuttal: developing new strategies of defense, 1770-1789.
Call Number
JFE 10-133
ISBN
  • 9780754667674 (alk. paper)
  • 0754667677 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2009003047
OCLC
YBP 2009003047
Author
Swaminathan, Srividhya.
Title
Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 / Srividhya Swaminathan.
Imprint
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Series
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 10-133
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