Ryan Hanley (University College London)

Beyond Slavery and Abolition

Black British Writing, C.1770-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

By extending our view of early black British writing beyond traditional questions of slavery and abolition, Ryan Hanley places black agency at the heart of a new social and cultural history of Georgian Britain. Combining historical research and literary analysis, he shows how black writers helped to make British society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781108475655
• ISBN-10: 1108475655
• Artikelnr.: 53021516

Autorenporträt

Ryan Hanley is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Black Celebrities: 1. Ignatius Sancho and posthumous literary celebrity, 1779-1782
2. Olaudah Equiano: celebrity abolitionist
3. Mary Prince and the infamy of victimhood, 1828-1833
Part II. Black Evangelicals: 4. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and British Calvinism, 1765-1779
5. Boston King, Kingswood School, and British Methodism, 1794-1798
6. John Jea in Lancashire and Hampshire, 1801-1817
Part III. Black Radicals: 7. Ottobah Cugoano and the 'Black poor', 1786-1791
8. Robert Wedderburn and London's radical underworld
Conclusion
Select bibliography.