LEADER 03815nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910454327003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-317-15417-7 010 $a1-282-26126-6 010 $a9786612261268 010 $a0-7546-9503-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000784071 035 $a(EBL)449249 035 $a(OCoLC)436286350 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135710 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11162410 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135710 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10063876 035 $a(PQKB)10363487 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC449249 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL449249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10325954 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226126 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000784071 100 $a20090129d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDebating the slave trade$b[electronic resource] $erhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 /$fSrividhya Swaminathan 210 $aFarnham Surrey, England ;$aBurlington $cAshgate$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 1 $aAshgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies ;$v2094 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7546-6767-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aIndex 330 $aSrividhya Swaminathan examines contemporary books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Suggesting that the debate to abolish the slave trade helped to construct a British national identity and character, she reads the arguments of pro- and anti-abolitionists as a series of dialogues among diverse groups at the center and peripheries of the empire. 410 0$aAshgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies ;$v2094. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aAntislavery movements$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAntislavery movements$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish language$y18th century$xRhetoric 606 $aEnglish language$y19th century$xRhetoric 606 $aAntislavery movements in literature 606 $aSlave trade in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric. 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric. 615 0$aAntislavery movements in literature. 615 0$aSlave trade in literature. 676 $a326.8/014 676 $a820.9358 700 $aSwaminathan$b Srividhya$0848455 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454327003321 996 $aDebating the slave trade$91895151 997 $aUNINA