Subject to others : British women writers and colonial slavery, 1670-1834 /
Ferguson, Moira,author.
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Colonial slavery and protest: text and context -- Oroonoko: birth of a paradigm -- Seventeenth-century Quaker women: displacement, colonialism, anti-slavery -- Inkle and Yarico: an anti-slavery reading -- Sentiment and amelioration -- Emerging resistance -- The parliamentary campaign: new debates -- The radical impulse: before the French Revolution -- The radical impulse: after the revolution -- Reactions to San Domingo (1): cheap repository tracts -- Reactions to San Domingo (2): sentiment, suicide, and patriotism -- Women in the provinces and across the Irish Sea: explosion of agitation -- Extending discourse and changing definitions -- Conclusion.
English literature
Antislavery movements
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
Slavery in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Blacks in literature.
Antislavery movements.
Blacks in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Slavery in literature.
Women and literature.