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Contrary Voices - Representations of West Indian Slavery (Paperback)
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Contrary Voices - Representations of West Indian Slavery (Paperback)
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This collection fills a gap in the provision of sourcebooks for the
history and sociology of slavery. It highlights variations in
representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a wide range
of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. It
thus differs in important respects from recent collections such as
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation; Amazing Grace: An Anthology of
Poems about Slavery, 1660-1810; and The Poetry of Slavery: An
Anglo-American Anthology 1764-1865. First, the focus is on
representations based principally on first-hand experience or
observation of slavery in the then British West Indies, thus
enabling valid comparisons to be made. Second, in order to recover
the "voices" of the enslaved, it draws on sources untapped in most
collections, such as transcriptions of slave songs, funeral
orations, conversations and legal reports, as well as better-known
slave narratives. The work is divided into five sections: Texts,
1657-1807; From Abolition to Emancipation, 1808-1834; Resistance
and Rebellion; On the Haitian Revolution; and Songs of the Enslaved
and Impersonations. The collection includes extracts from Richard
Ligon, Hans Sloane, Joseph Addison, Edward Long, Loaudah Equiano,
Matthew Gregory Lewis, Thomas Atwood, and representative poetry and
slave songs.
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