Debating the Slave Trade : Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759-1815

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Label

Debating the Slave Trade : Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759-1815

Title remainder

Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759-1815

Creator

• Swaminathan, Srividhya
• Swaminathan, Srividhya

Subject

• Antislavery movements in literature
• English language -- 18th century -- Rhetoric
• English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric
• English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Slave trade in literature
• Slavery in literature
• Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

Srividhya Swaminathan examines contemporary books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Suggesting that the debate to abolish the slave trade helped to construct a British national identity and character, she reads the arguments of pro- and anti-abolitionists as a series of dialogues among diverse groups at the center and peripheries of the empire

Member of

• Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
• Online access with purchase: EBL Ebook Library (Annual limit multiple access)

Cataloging source

AU-PeEL

Dewey number

• 326.8/014
• 820.9358

LC call number

PR448.S55 S93 2009

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies

Series volume

v.v. 2