"Bales of Living Anguish": Representations of Race and the Slave in Romantic Writing

Kitson explores several representations of African slaves in a variety of writings of the British Romantic period with a view to problematizing some of the insights of recent post-colonial theory. He focuses on Edward Long, Anthony Benezet and Thomas Clarkson argues that the body of theory is not simply of negative relevance to the Romantic period but is of use in providing languages and methodologies which aid in explicating its writings.