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Debating the Slave Trade - Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759-1815 (Paperback)
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Debating the Slave Trade - Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759-1815 (Paperback)
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How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave
trade help to construct a British national identity and character
in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines
books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in
rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist
debate. Framing them as competing narratives engaged in defining
the nature of the Briton, Swaminathan reads the arguments of pro-
and anti-abolitionists as a series of dialogues among diverse
groups at the center and peripheries of the empire. Arguing that
neither side emerged triumphant, Swaminathan suggests that the
Briton who emerged from these debates represented a synthesis of
arguments, and that the debates to abolish the slave trade are
marked by rhetorical transformations defining the image of the
Briton as one that led naturally to nineteenth-century imperialism
and a sense of global superiority. Because the slave-trade debates
were waged openly in print rather than behind the closed doors of
Parliament, they exerted a singular influence on the British
public. At their height, between 1788 and 1793, publications
numbered in the hundreds, spanned every genre, and circulated
throughout the empire. Among the voices represented are writers
from both sides of the Atlantic in dialogue with one another, such
as key African authors like Ignatius Sancho, Phillis Wheatley, and
Olaudah Equiano; West India planters and merchants; and Quaker
activist Anthony Benezet. Throughout, Swaminathan offers fresh and
nuanced readings that eschew the view that the abolition of the
slave trade was inevitable or that the ultimate defeat of
pro-slavery advocates was absolute.
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