Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals): British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834

Name: Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals): British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834
Brand: Moira Ferguson
SKU: 9781138796225
Price: 228.00 GBP
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by Moira Ferguson

Title:

Author:

Moira Ferguson

Series (if any):

Routledge Revivals

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

482 pages

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

ISBN-13:

9781138796225

EAN:

9781138796225

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

1170

Dimensions (mm):

216 x 138

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£228.00

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Description

First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Moira Ferguson chronicles writings by Anglo-Saxon women and one African-Caribbean ex-slave woman, from between 1670 and 1834, on the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of slaves. Through studying the writings of around thirty women in total, Ferguson concludes that white British women, as a result of their class position, religious affiliation and evolving conceptions of sexual difference, constructed a colonial discourse about Africans in general and slaves in particular.