Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504028945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
When John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition “full of lies and nonsense”—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid descriptions of exotic plants and animals, of military campaigns, and of romantic adventures. Illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others, Stedman’s work was quickly translated into a half-dozen languages and was eventually published in over twenty-five different editions. The Prices’ acclaimed critical edition is based on Stedman’s original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of a flourishing slave society. The Prices restore early omissions involving Stedman’s horror at the Dutch planters’ use of casual torture to discipline their slaves; his love and admiration for Joanna, his mulatto mistress; his strong belief in racial equality; and his outrage that “in 20 Years two millions of People are murdered to Provide us with Coffee & Sugar.” Freed from its original publisher’s censorship, Stedman’s Narrative stands as one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504028945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
When John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition “full of lies and nonsense”—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid descriptions of exotic plants and animals, of military campaigns, and of romantic adventures. Illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others, Stedman’s work was quickly translated into a half-dozen languages and was eventually published in over twenty-five different editions. The Prices’ acclaimed critical edition is based on Stedman’s original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of a flourishing slave society. The Prices restore early omissions involving Stedman’s horror at the Dutch planters’ use of casual torture to discipline their slaves; his love and admiration for Joanna, his mulatto mistress; his strong belief in racial equality; and his outrage that “in 20 Years two millions of People are murdered to Provide us with Coffee & Sugar.” Freed from its original publisher’s censorship, Stedman’s Narrative stands as one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher: Imprint Society
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher: Imprint Society
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Slavery and the Politics of Place
Author: Elizabeth A. Bohls
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.
Stedman's Surinam
Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080184259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080184259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
Author: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107354781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107354781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
Narrative of a Five Years Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777
Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America
Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guiana
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guiana
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870
Author: Tim Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521876265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521876265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.