ABSTRACT

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave.

part |41 pages

A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As Related by Himself (Bath, [1772])

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part |14 pages

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773) & Selected Letters from Collected Works (New York, 1988)

part |4 pages

Letter from Nocturnal Revels: Or the History of King’s-Place, and Other Modern Nunneries (London, 1779)

part |83 pages

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African (London, 1782)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part |81 pages

Letters Of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In two Volumes.

part |31 pages

Vol. I.

part |49 pages

Vol. II.

chapter |5 pages

Letter XIII. To Mr. S——.

chapter |3 pages

Letter XXI. To Mr. S——.

chapter |3 pages

Letter XLI. To Mr. M——.

chapter |3 pages

Letter XLIII. To Mr. M——.

chapter |3 pages

Letter LXIX.

part |21 pages

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (London, 1787)

part |3 pages

Letter to James Rogers (London, 1787)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |1 pages

Letter to James Rogers

part |104 pages

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (London, 1789)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part |72 pages

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written by Himself.

chapter |72 pages

Vol. I

chapter |30 pages

Vol. II

part |6 pages

Letters from Sierra Leonian Settlers (1792–8)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |4 pages

Letters from Sierra Leonian Settlers

part |36 pages

The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, The African Preacher (Portsea, [c.1815])

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |34 pages

The Life and History of John Jea.

part |21 pages

The Axe Laid to the Root (London, 1817), The Horrors of Slavery (London, 1824) & Letter to Francis Place (1831)

part |22 pages

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (London, 1831)