LEADER 02486oam 2200613 c 450 001 9910969579603321 005 20260202090927.0 010 $a9783838272733 010 $a3838272730 024 3 $a9783838272733 035 $a(CKB)4100000007801708 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5782660 035 $a(Perlego)862190 035 $a(ibidem)9783838272733 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007801708 100 $a20260202d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a?Malleable at the European Will?: British Discourse on Slavery (1784?1824) and the Image of Africans /$fHelmut Meier 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2019 215 $a1 online resource (359 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9783838212739 311 08$a3838212738 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aHelmut Meier?s study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784?1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on the slave trade and slavery as such. Starting from the premise that, at the threshold from the early to the late modern period, the distinct image of Africans as slaves was instrumental in universalizing a Eurocentric concept of capitalist wage labor both at the colonial centres and margins, Meier argues that, by portraying African slaves as suffering wretches, especially anti-slavery texts created colonial Others in an indistinct zone between inclusion and exclusion from humanity. The discourse on slavery thus constructs African slaves as mimetic Others which could subsequently become the objects of a discourse of colonial reform and ?betterment?. 606 $aAfrica 606 $aSlaves 606 $aBritain 606 $aAfrika 606 $aSklaven 606 $aEngland 606 $aSlavery 606 $aSklaverei 615 4$aAfrica 615 4$aSlaves 615 4$aBritain 615 4$aAfrika 615 4$aSklaven 615 4$aEngland 615 4$aSlavery 615 4$aSklaverei 676 $a306.3620941 700 $aMeier$b Helmut$cDr.$4aut$0199292 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969579603321 996 $a?Malleable at the European Will?: British Discourse on Slavery (1784?1824) and the Image of Africans$94453474 997 $aUNINA