Romanticism and Slave Narratives
Subtitle: Transatlantic Testimonies (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780521604567
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--18th century--History and; English literature--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European
First sentence: Although it would be a further one hundred years before England had successfully wrested the body of the slave trade from Spain and Portugal, and a further seventy years before it succeeded in dominating the European slave market, John Hawkins' voyage from England to Africa in 1562 marked England's entrance onto the world market of transatlantic slavery and its subsequent ascendance as a global power supported by colonial expansion.