Transatlantic literature of the long eighteenth century
Auteur :
Stanton, Kamille Stone
ISBN :
9781443832885
Date de publication :
1 oct. 2011
Dimensions :
21,2 x 14,8 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
340 g
Format :
With dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In 1789, before the abolition of slavery in Great Britain or the United States of America, poet William Blake quietly appealed to the public's sense of humanity in Songs of Innocence with the poem, ""The Little Black Boy."" In that same year, a former slave named Olaudah Equiano was catapulted to fame as a sympathetic face for the abolitionist moveme