Debating the slave trade [[electronic resource] ] : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 / / Srividhya Swaminathan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454327003321
• Autore: Swaminathan Srividhya
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Farnham Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, : Ashgate, 2009
• ISBN: 1-317-15417-7; 1-282-26126-6; 9786612261268; 0-7546-9503-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Collana: Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies ; ; 2094
• Disciplina: 326.8/014; 820.9358
• Soggetti: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Antislavery movements - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Antislavery movements - Great Britain - History - 19th century; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; English language - 18th century - Rhetoric; English language - 19th century - Rhetoric; Antislavery movements in literature; Slave trade in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Chronology of the British Slave Trade and Empire; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Building a Common Vocabulary: The Language of Reform and the Slave-Trade Debates; 2 Converging Arguments in British Resistance: Writing from the Coloniesto Great Britain, 1759-1776; 3 Proliferating Antislavery Arguments and the Creation of an Activist Community, 1772-1789; 4 The Proslavery Rebuttal: Developing New Strategies of Defense, 1770-1789; 5 Whose Victory? Abolition and the Construction of British Identity, 1788-1807; Epilogue Towards an Imperial Briton; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Srividhya Swaminathan examines contemporary books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Suggesting that the debate to abolish the slave trade helped to construct a British national identity and character, she reads the arguments of pro- and anti-abolitionists as a series of dialogues among diverse groups at the center and peripheries of the empire.