Slavery, abolition and emancipation. Verse / Volume 4, (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter J. Kitson, Debbie Lee, Anne K. Mellor, James Walvin.
• Authors: Kitson, Peter J
• Editors: Kitson, Peter J; Lee, Debbie; Mellor, Anne K; Walvin, James
• Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Note on copy texts -- Thomas Chatterton, ‘Heccar and Gaira an African Ecologue’ (1770) -- Thomas Day and John Bicknell, The Dying Negro, a Poetical Epistle (1773) -- Bryan Edwards, ‘The Negro’s Dying Speech on his Being Executed for Rebellion in the Island of Jamaica’ (1777) -- Hugh Mulligan, ‘The Lovers, an African Ecologue’ (1784) -- Edward Rushton, West-Indian Ecologues (1787) -- Eliza Knipe, ‘Atomboka and Omaza; an African Story’ (1787) -- William Cowper, ‘The Negro’s Complaint’, ‘Pity for Poor Africans’, ‘The Morning Dream’, and ‘Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce’ (1788) -- Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave-Trade (1788) -- William Roscoe and James Currie, ‘The African’ (1788) -- Robert Merry, ‘The Slaves. An Elegy’ (1789) -- Hannah More, Slavery, A Poem (1788) -- Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity o f the Slave-Trade (1788) -- William Blake, ‘The Little Black Boy’ (1789) -- Anna Letitia Barbauld, Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection o f the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (1791) -- James Boswell, No Abolition o f Slavery; or the Universal Empire o f Love: A Poem (1791) -- William Lisle Bowles, ‘The African’ (1791)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9358281; English literature -- 19th century -- Social aspects; Slavery in literature; English poetry -- 19th century -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000748642
• Related ISBNs: 9781000742268; 9781000745450; 9780429348457
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