Title Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 / Srividhya Swaminathan.

Publication Info.	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations, plans.
Series	Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
	Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Building a common vocabulary: the language of reform and the slave-trade debates -- Converging arguments in British resistance: writing from the colonies to Great Britain, 1759-1776 -- Proliferating antislavery arguments and the creation of an activist community, 1772-1789 -- The proslavery rebuttal: developing new strategies of defense, 1770-1789.
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Summary	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.
Subject	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.
	English literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
	Antislavery movements. (OCoLC)fst00810800
	Antislavery movements in literature. (OCoLC)fst00810811
	English language -- Rhetoric. (OCoLC)fst00911581
	English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
	Slave trade in literature. (OCoLC)fst01120409
	Slavery in literature. (OCoLC)fst01120515
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Swaminathan, Srividhya. Debating the slave trade. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754667674 0754667677 (DLC) 2009003047 (OCoLC)302099197
ISBN	9780754695035 (electronic bk.)
	0754695034 (electronic bk.)

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