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Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 / Srividhya Swaminathan.
Van Pelt Library PR448.S55 S93 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swaminathan, Srividhya.
- Series:
- Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English language--18th century--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Rhetoric.
- English language--19th century--Rhetoric.
- Antislavery movements in literature.
- Slave trade in literature.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 245 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754667674
- 0754667677
- OCLC:
- 302099197
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