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

"How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by bot...

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Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Colección:Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
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  • 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
  • Whose victory? Abolition and the construction of British identity, 1788-1807.
  • 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.