Representative Works
Aphra Behn
Oroonoko; Or, The Royall Slave (novel) 1688
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Ode on the Slave Trade” (poem) 1792
A Lecture on the Slave Trade and the Duties that Result from its Continuance (lecture) 1795
Ottobah Cugoano
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evils of Slavery (narrative) 1787
William Cowper
The Task (poems) 1785
“The Negro's Complaint” (poem) 1788
“The Morning Dream” (poem) 1788
“Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce” (poem) 1785
Olauda Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (autobiography) 1789
Alexander Falconbridge
An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (travel narrative) 1788
Jupiter Hammon
An Evening Thought; Salvation by Christ with Penetential Cries (poem) 1760
“A Dialogue Entitled the Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant” (poem) date unknown
An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York (lecture) 1760
Ignatius Sancho
The Letters of Ignatius Sancho, An African to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life by Joseph Jekyll (letters) 1782
William Snelgrave
A New Account of Guinea and the Slave Trade (travel narrative) 1744
James Thomson
Seasons (poems) 1730
Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (poems) 1773
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