Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano
Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano

Author: Thomas Clarkson

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1551113384

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When abolitionists Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano published their essays on slavery in the late eighteenth century, they became key participants in one of the most important human rights campaigns in history. British abolitionism sought to expose the realities of transatlantic slavery in addition to asking politicians to help dehumanized Africans in the New World, and this edition brings together two major essays of the 1780s that were influential in the spread of the early abolitionist movement: Clarkson’s An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species and Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species. A critical introduction and extensive historical appendices on British and American slavery and abolitionism, featuring contemporary arguments for and against slavery, are also included.

Contemporary British Women Writers
Contemporary British Women Writers

Author: Robert E. Hosmer

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1993-01-14

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780333565322

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Contemporary British Women Writers is a collection of ten essays, each devoted to an important novelist and written by a distinguished scholar. Included in this volume are Sybille Bedford, Anita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Isabel Colegate, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Hill, Molly Keane, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. Each essay focuses on several novels, selected to reveal the novelist's consistent concerns and characteristic strategies. Individual bibliographies provide a full sense of the novelist's work as well as a discriminating guide to the best critical work available.

The Faces of Justice
The Faces of Justice

Author: Sybille Bedford

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0571282695

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'Going to law courts is a good education for a novelist. It provides you with the most extravagant material, and it teaches the near impossibility of reaching the truth.' Sybille Bedford, Paris Review (1993) For The Faces of Justice (1961) Sybille Bedford journeyed through Europe to sit in the press box of the courts of law - high courts, low courts, police courts. In England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, she watched the prisoners at the bar, the accusing community arrayed against them, the advocates, the jurors, the judges on the bench. She saw justice being attempted under the law - the best we can do, the worst we can do - varying in subtle yet astonishing ways from country to country. The result is a story about justice, humanity and the individual - moving, dramatic, superbly observed, splendidly told.

Letters on Slavery
Letters on Slavery

Author: William Dickson

Publisher: Hansebooks

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9783337816544

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Letters on Slavery is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1789. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A Compass Error
A Compass Error

Author: Sybille Bedford

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781907970030

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Set in a two month period during the late 1920s, A Compass Error suggests that at some key juncture the book's main character, Flavia, made a mistake that somehow blew her life off course, perhaps into a new sexual orientation.