Versions of Blackness : key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century / [edited by] Derek Hughes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, Derek, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--17th century.

English literature.

Slavery--Literary collections.

Slavery.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 381 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary.

Contents:

Part one: The major texts. The isle of pines / Henry Neville ; Abdelazer / Aphra Behn ; Oroonoko / Aphra Behn ; Oroonoko / Thomas Southerne

Part two: Contexts : Europe, America, and Africa. A short account of the destruction of the Indies / from Bartolomé de las Casas ; Democrates secundus / from Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda ; "Of the cannibals" and "Of coaches" / from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ; On spreading the Gospel among the savages / from José de Acosta ; The English-American his travail by sea and land / from Thomas Gage ; A true and exact history of the island of Barbados / from Richard Ligon ; The history of Sir Francis Drake / from Sir William Davenant ; Voyage de la France eqinoxiale en l'Isle de Cayenne / from Antoine Biet ; An exact relation of the most execrable attempts of John Allin / from William Byam ; The history of the Caribby-Islands / from Charles de Rochefort ; Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François / from Jean-Baptiste du Tertre ; An impartial description of Surinam / from George Warren ; From Great newes from the Barbadoes ; The Negro's and Indians advocate / from Morgan Godwyn ; Friendly advice to the gentlemen planters of the East and West Indies / from Thomas Tryon

Discussions of colonialism. Iewes in America / from Thomas Thorowgood ; Americans no iewes / from Hamon l'Estrange ; Leviathan / from Thomas Hobbes ; A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan / from Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon ; Two treatises of government / from John Locke ; The Germantown protest.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-377) and index.

Contains:

Neville, Henry, 1620-1694. Isle of pines.

Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Abdelazer.

Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko.

Southerne, Thomas, 1660-1746. Oroonoko.

ISBN:

0521869307

9780521869300

0521689562

9780521689564

OCLC:

71237349

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