Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770–1833
by
Elizabeth A. Bohls
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles - as fully imagined places and the basis for a pro- or anti-slavery political agenda. With the help of twenty-first-century...