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The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture Book

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, The figure of the grateful slave, devoted to his or her master in thanks for kind treatment, is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century writing from Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack (1722) to Maria Edgeworth's 'The Grateful Negro' (1804). Yet this important trope, li, The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture has a rating of 3 stars
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The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture, The figure of the grateful slave, devoted to his or her master in thanks for kind treatment, is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century writing from Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack (1722) to Maria Edgeworth's 'The Grateful Negro' (1804). Yet this important trope, li, The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture
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  • The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture
  • Written by author George Boulukos
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, January 2011
  • The figure of the grateful slave, devoted to his or her master in thanks for kind treatment, is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century writing from Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack (1722) to Maria Edgeworth's 'The Grateful Negro' (1804). Yet this important trope, li
  • A fresh account of the development of racial difference in the eighteenth-century English-speaking world.
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List of illustrations     vi
Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
The prehistory of the grateful slave     38
The origin of the grateful slave: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack, 1722     75
The evolution of the grateful slave 1754-1777: the emergence of racial difference in the slavery debate and the novel     95
The 1780s: transition     141
Gratitude in the black Atlantic: Equiano writes back, 1789     173
The 1790s: ameliorationist convergence     201
Epilogue: Grateful slaves, faithful slaves, mammies and martyrs: the transatlantic afterlife of the grateful slave     233
Bibliography     246
Index     273


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