Full Description
This is the first ever critical edition of Penelope Aubin's The Noble Slaves, a novel that shows women as both moral exemplars and independent adventurers in foreign lands. Its tales of seduction, imprisonment, and escape engage with contemporary debates about arbitrary authority and slavery—particularly in relation to the lives of women. In one brief and fast-paced novel, Aubin brings together the aristocratic romance and the world of trade with the themes of empire and colonialism. Sometimes assessed as a pious conservative or a popular sensationalist, Aubin used fiction as a vehicle for addressing the deepest moral and political concerns of her time, and The Noble Slaves will allow new readers to understand her importance to the history of the novel.
The appendices to this Broadview Edition include contemporary fiction and historical documents on slavery, piracy, and Orientalism.
Contents
Appendix A: Slavery
1. London Journal, Saturday, December 9th, 1721 reports the parading of captives released from Morocco
2. Anon., from A Description of the Nature of Slavery among the Moors, and the Cruel Sufferings of those that Fall into it (1721)
3. Daniel Defoe, from A Review of the State of the English Nation, No. 127, Saturday, January 28th, 1710
4. [Daniel Defoe], from Reformation of Manners, A Satyr (1702)
5. [Daniel Defoe], from The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720)
6. Anon., Excerpt from An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696)
7. Mary Astell, from the Preface to Some Reflections Upon Marriage, third edition (1706)
8. [Cato], Excerpt from the London Journal, no. CXXX, Saturday, January 20th, 1722
9. [Cato], Excerpt from A Discourse of Standing Armies (1722)
10. William Stephens, Excerpt from A Second Deliverance from Popery and Slavery. As it was set forth in a Sermon in the Parish Church of Sutton in Surrey, Sept. 19. 1714. Being the First Sunday after His Majesty's Landing (1714)
Appendix B: Orientalism
1. Sir Paul Rycaut, Excerpt from The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1666)
2. [Cato], Excerpt from the London Journal, No. XC, Saturday, April 15, 1721
3. Delarivier Manley, Excerpt from Almyna: or, The Arabian Vow. A Tragedy (first performed 1706, 3. published 1707)
4. Mary Pix, Excerpt from Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks: A Tragedy (1696)
Appendix C: Piracy
1. David Aubin, Excerpt from Letter to Abraham and Henry Aubin, June 3, 1720
2. Penelope Aubin, Deposition of Penelope Aubin to the Board of Trade, 20 January 1709
3. [Daniel Defoe], Excerpt from The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1719)
4. [Captain Charles Johnson], Excerpt from A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates (1724)
Appendix D: Romance and Translation
1. Penelope Aubin, Excerpts from The Illustrious French Lovers, 2v. (1726)
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