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
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Note on copy texts -- Mrs Weddell, Incle and Yarico (1742) -- Isaac Bickerstaff, The Padlock (1768) -- Thomas Bellamy, The Benevolent Planters (1789) -- Mariana Starke, The Sword o f Peace; or , Voyage o f Love (1789) -- John Fawcett, Obi; or, Three-Finger*d Jack (1800) -- George Colman the Younger, The Africans; or, War, Love and Duty (1808) -- Anonymous, Furibond; or, Harlequin Negro (1808) -- Thomas Morton, The Slave (1816) -- Notes.
