Title: Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 /
Authors: Swaminathan, Srividhya.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2009
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Antislavery movements Great Britain History; Antislavery movements Great Britain History; English literature History and criticism; English language Rhetoric; English language Rhetoric; Antislavery movements in literature.; Slave trade in literature.
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.