"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 si...

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African culture
Benezet, Anthony
British literature
Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846)
Colonialism
History
Literary criticism
Long, Edward
Postcolonial literature
Race
Romantic literature
Slave trade
Slavery
Slaves
Writers
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