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Invoking slavery in the eighteenth-century British imagination
In the eighteenth century, literary representations of slavery encompassed a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Without eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding the manner in which slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere.
Pt. 1. Invocations of "foreign" or captive enslavement -- pt. 2. Political invocations of slavery and liberty -- pt. 3. Invocations of slavery in British systems of servitude.
edited by Srividhya Swaminathan and Adam R. Beach.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
British literature in context in the long eighteenth century