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Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies
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Literary TheoryColonialismDecolonialityBritish LiteratureSocial SciencesAbolition StudiesSettler ColonialismLiterary CriticismAfrican American StudiesJohn NewtonCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesPost-colonial CriticismSlave NarrativesIntroduction 1Radical DissentHistorical AnalysisLiterary HistoryAfrican American SlaveryAbolitionism
Introduction 1. The English slave trade and abolitionism 2. Radical dissent and spiritual autobiography: Joanna Southcott, John Newton and William Cowper 3. Romanticism and abolitionism: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth 4. Cross-cultural contact: John Stedman, Thomas Jefferson and the slaves 5. The diasporic identity: language and the paradigms of liberation 6. The early slave narratives: Jupiter Hammon, John Marrant and Ottobah Gronniosaw 7. Phyllis Wheatley: poems and letters 8. Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative 9. Robert Wedderburn and mulatto discourse.