The grateful slave : the emergence of race in eighteenth-century British and American culture

The grateful slave : the emergence of race in eighteenth-century British and American culture

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

820.9 B763 2008

(OCoLC)174449728

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-272) and index.
Contents: The prehistory of the grateful slave -- The origin of the grateful slave: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack, 1722 -- The evolution of the grateful slave 1754-1777: the emergence of racial difference in the slavery debate and the novel -- The 1780s: transition -- Gratitude in the black Atlantic: Equiano writes back, 1789 -- The 1790s: ameliorationist convergence -- Epilogue: grateful slaves, faithful slaves, mammies and martyrs: the transatlantic afterlife of the grateful slave.
L2008M182

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