03815nam 2200805Ia 450 991045432700332120200520144314.01-317-15417-71-282-26126-697866122612680-7546-9503-4(CKB)1000000000784071(EBL)449249(OCoLC)436286350(SSID)ssj0000135710(PQKBManifestationID)11162410(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135710(PQKBWorkID)10063876(PQKB)10363487(MiAaPQ)EBC449249(Au-PeEL)EBL449249(CaPaEBR)ebr10325954(CaONFJC)MIL226126(EXLCZ)99100000000078407120090129d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDebating the slave trade[electronic resource] rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 /Srividhya SwaminathanFarnham Surrey, England ;Burlington Ashgate20091 online resource (262 p.)Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies ;2094Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-6767-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; BibliographyIndexSrividhya 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.Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies ;2094.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismSlavery in literatureAntislavery movementsGreat BritainHistory18th centuryAntislavery movementsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish language18th centuryRhetoricEnglish language19th centuryRhetoricAntislavery movements in literatureSlave trade in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Slavery in literature.Antislavery movementsHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.English languageRhetoric.English languageRhetoric.Antislavery movements in literature.Slave trade in literature.326.8/014820.9358Swaminathan Srividhya848455MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454327003321Debating the slave trade1895151UNINA