The Slave Trade in British and American Literature - Further Reading
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CRITICISM
Conolly, L. W. “English Drama and the Slave Trade.” English Studies in Canada 4 (1978): 393-412.
Survey of English plays about slavery in the 1700s and the early 1800s.
Diedrich, Maria, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pederson, eds.. Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 320 p.
Collection of essays examining the forced dispossession of Africans caused by slavery and the slave trade; analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music of the transatlantic journey and on the American continent.
Ebbatson, J. R. “Some ‘Forgotten Scribblers’ on the Slave Trade.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 4, No. 4 (1973): 3-18.
Discusses the work of lesser-known eighteenth-century British writers who contributed to the slavery debate, such as Richard Mant, Elizabeth Berger, and...
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