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The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture
Boulukos, George (Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture
Boulukos, George (Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
The literary trope of the grateful slave was used to justify colonial practices of white supremacy in the eighteenth century. Taking in literary sources as well as texts on colonialism and slavery, in this book Boulukos offers a fresh account of the development of racial difference in the eighteenth-century English-speaking world.
290 pages, 6 b/w illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 21, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780521885713 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 21 mm · 594 g |
Language | English |