1st Edition

Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Writings in the British Romantic Period

    3664 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.