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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|247 pages
Anti-Slave Trade
part |33 pages
An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies (London, 1784)
part |37 pages
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (London, 1788)
part |43 pages
Thoughts on the African Slave Trade (London, 1788)
part |16 pages
An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (London, 1788)
part |17 pages
Speech on the motion for the abolition of the slave trade, 12 May 1789 [containing] Twelve Propositions submitted ... by Mr Wilberforce, to the consideration of the committee, to whom the report of the Privy Council ... (London, 1789)
part |13 pages
An Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Propriety of Abstaining from West India Sugar and Rum (London, 1791)
part |42 pages
Sketch of the Negro Code (1792)
part |12 pages
‘On the Slave Trade’ (Bristol, 1796)
part |27 pages
‘Review of The History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
part II|129 pages
Pro-Slave Trade
part |30 pages
Remarks Upon the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica, impartially made From local Experience of nearly Thirteen Years in that Island (London, 1788)
part |43 pages
Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave-Trade, shewing its conformity with the principles of natural and revealed religion, delineated in the Sacred Writings of the Word of God (Liverpool, 1788)
part |23 pages
A Speech delivered at a Free Conference between the Honourable Council and Assembly of Jamaica … On the Subject of Mr. Wilberforce’s Propositions in the House of Commons, concerning the Slave Trade (Kingston Jamaica, 1789; London, 1790)
part |21 pages
Observations on the Project for Abolishing the Slave Trade and on the reasonableness of attempting some practicable mode of relieving the Negroes (London, 1790)
part |7 pages
‘Slave Trade’, Political Register (January-June, 1802)