Debating the Slave Trade (Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies)

by SrividhyaSwaminathan (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $147.72

  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? This book examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate.