| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations, plans. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
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Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Summary |
Srividhya Swaminathan examines contemporary books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Suggesting that the debate to abolish the slave trade helped to construct a British national identity and character, she reads the arguments of pro- and anti-abolitionists as a series of dialogues among diverse groups at the center and peripheries of the empire. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Antislavery movements. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English language -- 18th century -- Rhetoric.
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English language. |
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Rhetoric. |
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English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric.
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Antislavery movements in literature.
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Antislavery movements in literature. |
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Slave trade in literature.
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Slave trade in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Swaminathan, Srividhya. Debating the slave trade. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754667674 0754667677 (DLC) 2009003047 (OCoLC)302099197 |
| ISBN |
9780754695035 (e-book) |
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0754695034 (e-book) |
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1282261266 |
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9781282261266 |
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9780754667674 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0754667677 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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