Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, C.1770-1830

ISBN-13: 9781108468756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 281 str.

Ryan Hanley

Opis

By extending our view of early black British writing beyond traditional questions of slavery and abolition, Ryan Hanley places black agency at the heart of a new social and cultural history of Georgian Britain. Combining historical research and literary analysis, he shows how black writers helped to make British society.

Recenzje

'Historians of black British history, the British Atlantic, and slavery studies will all find something rewarding in the book. Indeed, the Royal Historical Society deemed Beyond Slavery and Abolition worthy of its annual Whitfield Prize, an award that this novel work most certainly deserves.' Gary D. Sellick, H-Slavery

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Black Celebrities: 1. Ignatius Sancho and posthumous literary celebrity, 1779–1782; 2. Olaudah Equiano: celebrity abolitionist; 3. Mary Prince and the infamy of victimhood, 1828–1833; Part II. Black Evangelicals: 4. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and British Calvinism, 1765–1779; 5. Boston King, Kingswood School, and British Methodism, 1794–1798; 6. John Jea in Lancashire and Hampshire, 1801–1817; Part III. Black Radicals: 7. Ottobah Cugoano and the 'Black poor', 1786–1791; 8. Robert Wedderburn and London's radical underworld; Conclusion; Select bibliography.