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Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination (Paperback)
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Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination (Paperback)
Series: British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
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In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood
the term 'slavery' to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical
conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary
representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity,
the 'exotic' slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political
enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh
life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and
cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term
that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel
enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World,
the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper
discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the
term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping
British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with
respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding
the real and important differences between slave systems operating
in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for
understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms
of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the
power of association.
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