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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 October 2018
      08 November 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108616997
      9781108475655
      9781108468756
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108616997
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 278 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 282 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British History after 1450, History, English Literature 1700-1830
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    The first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black writers of the time, and highlights their contribution to politics, culture, and the arts. He considers the lives and works of contemporary black literary celebrities alongside largely forgotten evangelical authors and political radicals to uncover how they came to produce such diverse and powerful work. By navigating the social, religious, political and professional networks that surrounded these authors and their writing, he also reveals that black intellectuals were never confined to the peripheries of British culture. From the decks of Royal Navy ships to the drawing rooms of country houses, from the pub to the pulpit, black writers, and the work they produced, helped to build modern Britain.

    Awards

    Winner, 2019 Whitfield Book Prize, Royal Historical Society

    Reviews

    ‘Historians of black British history, the British Atlantic, and slavery studies will all find something rewarding in the book. Indeed, the Royal Historical Society deemed Beyond Slavery and Abolition worthy of its annual Whitfield Prize, an award that this novel work most certainly deserves.’

    Gary D. Sellick Source: H-Slavery

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