The grateful slave : the emergence of race in eighteenth-century British and American culture / George Boulukos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulukos, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--18th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Slavery in literature.

Race in literature.

Difference (Psychology) in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 The prehistory of the grateful slave 38

2 The origin of the grateful slave: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack, 1722 75

3 The evolution of the grateful slave 1754-1777: the emergence of racial difference in the slavery debate and the novel 95

4 The 1780s: transition 141

5 Gratitude in the black Atlantic: Equiano writes back, 1789 173

6 The 1790s: ameliorationist convergence 201

Epilogue: Grateful slaves, faithful slaves, mammies and martyrs: the transatlantic afterlife of the grateful slave 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521885713

052188571X

OCLC:

174449728