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Boulukos, George Eleftherios.

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The grateful slave: Representations of slave plantation reform in the British novel, 1720-1805 (Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The grateful slave: Representations of slave plantation reform in the British novel, 1720-1805 (Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth)./
Author:	Boulukos, George Eleftherios.
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-07, Section: A, page: 2501.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-07A.
Subject:	History, Black. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9936971
ISBN:	0599382856

The grateful slave: Representations of slave plantation reform in the British novel, 1720-1805 (Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth).
Boulukos, George Eleftherios.

The grateful slave: Representations of slave plantation reform in the British novel, 1720-1805 (Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth). - 270 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-07, Section: A, page: 2501.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 1998.

This dissertation examines an overlooked figure in eighteenth-century British culture: the grateful slave. From Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel <italic> Colonel Jack</italic> to Maria Edgeworth's 1804 story “The Grateful Negro,” a scenario recurs. A sentimental young man, finding himself on a plantation, reacts to the African slaves' suffering. The slaves' gratitude for his kindness inspires them to be more productive. His reforms both strengthen slavery as an institution and reveal racial differences between Africans and Europeans. Invoking free-labor as a worthy model, he rejects it as impossible for Africans in light of their natural dependence and irrational gratitude. As the century moves on, the concept of the grateful slave becomes familiar, resonating with Kant's and Jefferson's theories of race, and inspiring reactions from angry rejection to enthusiastic endorsement. By presenting the history of the “grateful slave,” this dissertation challenges the interpretation of sentimentalism, the novel, and anti-slavery as unified aspects of emerging bourgeois culture, and recovers a lost moment in the history of racial thinking.

ISBN: 0599382856Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017776
History, Black.

The grateful slave: Representations of slave plantation reform in the British novel, 1720-1805 (Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth).
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