Description
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave.
Table of Contents
General Introduction -- Chronology -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to volume 1 -- Bibliography -- Note on copy texts -- Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As Related by Himself (1772) -- Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) -- Phillis Wheatley, Selected Letters from The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (1988) -- Julius Soubise, ‘Letter’ in Anon, Nocturnal Revels: Or, The History of King’s-Place, and Other Modem Nunneries (1779) -- Ignatius Sancho, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho: an African, to which are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life (1782) -- Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787) -- James Harris, Letter to James Rogers (1787) -- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789) -- Letters from Sierra Leonian Settlers (1792-8) -- John Jea, The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, The African Preacher (1815) -- Robert Wedderburn, The Axe Laid to the Root, Or a Fatal Blow to an Address to the Planters and Negroes of the Island of Jamaica (1817)3 -- Robert Wedderburn, The Horrors of Slavery; Exemplified in the Life and History of the Rev. Robert Wedderburn, V.D.M. (1824) -- Robert Wedderburn, Letter to Francis Place (1831) -- Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831) -- Notes.
