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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 188–215.
Published: 01 April 2023
... sociocultural developments related to the expansion of the British empire, including significant insights into the horrors of the slave trade and the cause of abolition. Falconer's legacy is one that is deeper than previously recognized. He later suggests “fuller Journals best can shew” (14) the universal...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
... its female members, are at once advantaged and disadvantaged, as they sympathized with some more radical positions, such as abolitionism and support for female preaching, while working to maintain middle-class respectability. We can attribute the absence of extensive discussion of abolition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., and translated discourses, both abolitionist and revolutionary, into practice. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 boycott sugar abolition French Revolution Saint-Domingue 33. John Campbell, Candid and Impartial Observations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade (London: R. Baldwin, 1763...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 26–53.
Published: 01 April 2024
... between More's lofty, universalizing statements, her self-serving motivations, and her ultimately limited advocacy of abolition. 20 Even so, less attention has been paid to Slavery 's contemporary responses, as literary reviews of More's poem reveal a notable pattern of reception: those who were quick...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Tobias Menely Daniel M. Gross. The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's “Rhetoric” to Modern Brain Science (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 194. $18. ISBN 0-226-30980-0 Brycchan Carey. British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 3–12.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., but this hardly means he rejected African slavery, and his East India Company involvement suggests no strong objections to colonialism. 8 While it may be argued that it was the Somerset case, in 1772, two years after Falconer's death, that sparked widespread discussion of abolition and, ultimately, the end...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 56–82.
Published: 01 April 2007
..., appealed to
readers of all social classes, because they included elements of romance and
exoticism, and touched upon the timely issues of slavery, abolition, and racial
disharmony. They also appeared in a wide variety of genres, from poem,
history, novel, and drama, to travel writing and memoir...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 91–94.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Hanway’s
Sentiments and Advice of Thomas Trueman in the context of David Garrick’s
abolition of the footman’s gallery. Chapter 6 centers on novelistic representa-
tions of footmen’s behaviors. Straub views Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews in
particular as a text in which the footman’s sexuality...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 91–107.
Published: 01 April 2005
.... E. Sanderson, “The Liverpool Abolitionists,” in Liverpool, the African
Slave Trade, and Abolition, ed. Roger Anstey and P. E. Hair (Liverpool: Liverpool
Univ., 1976), 196 – 238, and George Chandler, William Roscoe of Liverpool, 116.
Sanderson also notes the covert nature of the Liverpool...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 115–126.
Published: 01 April 2009
..., 1799 – 1815 (Lubbock: Texas Tech
Univ., 2007). Pp. xxx + 286. $40. ISBN 0-89672-559-6
Carey, Brycchan, and Peter J. Kitson, eds. Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays
Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807 (Woodbridge: D. S.
Brewer, 2007). Pp. viii...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 January 2009
... The Benevolent Planters, published and performed (if only twice) in
1789. In this short, musical play, the prologue promotes abolition, while the
plot closes disappointingly with grateful African slaves lauding their kindly
European masters. How refreshingly fair-minded is Thelwall’s notion that
worthy...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 109–113.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that, to the extent that the Enlightenment was dialectical, the dialectic was there from the start (164 65). In Sebastiani s estimation, the Scottish Enlight- enment produced both the seeds for racism, imperialism, and the perpetuation of patriarchy, and, at the same time, the seeds for humanitarianism, abolition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 88–92.
Published: 01 April 2024
....” “Tied up at work”: it is a metaphor that comes so naturally that its implicit image—of a human being, bound against his will, forced to complete a task–barely registers. But if it was deployed not in the twenty-first century, well after the abolition of slavery, but amid the period that witnessed its...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 221–225.
Published: 01 January 2011
... the trade itself was a form of literal translation, or bearing across.
He criticizes the “exclusionary gesture” these critics perpetrated in presenting
women writers as uniquely concerned with abolition. He claims a place for a
text such as Saint-Lambert’s Ziméo (1769) within their “female” corpus...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 98–102.
Published: 01 January 2012
... not to marry or their husbands were
presented in a negative light” (75).
Phillis Wheatley was the best known of the many women of African
descent whose struggles for freedom and self-definition did not end with
emancipation, and who were instrumental in the gradual abolition of slavery...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 135–141.
Published: 01 September 2006
... and Identity during the Age of Abolition
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. 245. $75. ISBN 0-521-84131-3
Larson, Lauritz, and Michael A. Morrison, eds. Whither the Early Republic: A Forum
on the Future of the Field (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005). Pp. 201.
$19.95 paper. ISBN...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 105–113.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., Mitchell establishes an important
link between the literary difficulties encountered by these poets and the finan-
cial difficulties that the abolition movement itself faced. Poets of the period,
Mitchell argues, were deeply concerned with exposing the horrifying facts
of slavery and with moving...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
... subscribers, they expect, the members of those societies, which have been expressly instituted for the abolition of Slavery, as also those who wish well to the Institutions. SUBSCRIPTIONS are received by THOMAS and ANDREWS, the publishers, in Boston—by I. THOMAS, at Worcester—and by many of the Booksellers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 94–102.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to the anthropology or natural his-
tory of the time and, at times, to the politics of abolition and emancipation.
The confusion over the legal position of former slaves in Britain was
resolved by the celebrated cases of James Somersett (under English Law,
in 1776...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 135–148.
Published: 01 January 2012
... a review
essay of the ten-volume Women’s Theatrical Memoirs; one to Adam Smith;
one on Swift and feminism; one on abolition and sensibility; and three on
cultural-studies topics like conversation, money, and filth. And three reviews
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