Contrary Voices: Representations of West Indian Slavery, 1657-1834
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9789766402082
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Part 1. 1657–1807
RICHARD LIGON (CA. 1585 –1662) A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657)
GEORGE WARREN (FL. 1667) An Impartial Description of Surinam (1667)
HANS SLOANE (1660–1753) A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christopher sand Jamaica (1707)
“A SPEECH MADE BY A BLACK OF GUARDALOUPE, AT THE FUNERAL OF A FELLOW-NEGRO” From A Letter from a Merchant at Jamaica (1709)
RICHARD STEELE (1672–1729) “The History of Inkle and Yarico” (1711)
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719) “A Kind of Wild Tragedy” (1711)
“THE PLEASURES OF JAMAICA” (1738)
CHARLES LESLIE (FL. 1738–43) A New History of Jamaica (1740)
JAMES GRAINGER (CA. 1727–66) The Sugar-Cane: A Poem (1764)
EDWARD THOMPSON (1739 –86) Sailor’s Letters (1766)
JOHN SINGLETON (FL. 1767–77) A General Description of the West-Indian Islands (1767)
EDWARD LONG (1734–1813) The History of Jamaica (1774)
JAMAICA: A POEM (1777)
“THE FIELD NEGROE; OR THE EFFECT OF CIVILIZATION” (1783)
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752–1832) “To Sir Toby, A Sugar Planter in the interior parts of Jamaica” (1784)
JAMES RAMSAY (1733–89) An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Slave Colonies (1784)
GORDON TURNBULL (FL. 1785–95) An Apology for Negro Slavery (1786)
WILLIAM BECKFORD (1744–99) Remarks upon the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica (1788)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745–97) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
R.C. DALLAS (1754–1824) A Short Journey in the West Indies (1790)
JOHN LUFFMAN (FL. 1776–1820) A Brief Account of the Island of Antigua (1789)
M.H. “The Poor Negro Beggar’s Petition and Complaint” (1791)
BRYAN EDWARDS (1743–1800) “Ode on seeing a Negro-Funeral” (1793)
JOHN MARJORIBANKS (1759–96) Slavery: An Essay in Verse (1792)
HENRY EVANS HOLDER (FL. 1788–92) Fragments of a Poem (1792)
JOHN GABRIEL STEDMAN (1744–97) Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796)
R.C. DALLAS (1754–1824) The History of the Maroons (1803)
GEORGE PINCKARD (1768–1835) Notes on the West Indies (1806)
EDWARD RUSHTON (1756–1814) “The Coromantees” (1824)
Part 2. From Abolition to Emancipation, 1808–1834
JOHN STEWART (D. 1832) An Account of Jamaica (1808)
MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (177 –1818 )Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834)
“ACCOUNT OF THE CHRISTMAS RACKET AMONG THE NEGROES IN JAMAICA” (1810)
JOHN AUGUSTINE WALLER (FL. 1807–22) A Voyage in the West Indies (1820)
C.S. “Negro Slavery” (ca. 1821)
THOMAS COOPER (1791/2 –1880) Facts illustrative of the condition of the Negro slaves in Jamaica (1824)
ROBERT WEDDERBURN (1762–1835/6) The Horrors of Slavery (1824)
“THE AFRICAN AND CREOLE SLAVE CONTRASTED” (1825 )
SKETCHES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF THE WEST INDIES (1828)
MARLY; OR, A PLANTER’S LIFE IN JAMAICA (1828)
ASHTON WARNER (CA. 1807–31) Negro Slavery Described by a Negro (1831)
MARY PRINCE (CA. 1788–CA. 1832) The History of Mary Prince (1831)
MRS CARMICHAEL (D. 1885) Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured and Negro Population of the West Indies (1833)
WILLIAM KNIBB (1803–45) “A Brief Account of a Much-Persecuted Christian Slave” (1834)
“THE NEGRO WILL WORK FOR WAGES”, FROM THE BOW IN THE CLOUD (1834)
LETTER FROM A MOTHER IN JAMAICA TO HER DAUGHTER IN EDINBURGH (1834)
R.R. MADDEN (1798–1886) A Twelvemonth’s Residence in the West Indies (1835)
A. McL .“Lady Liberty” (1834)
Part 3. Resistance and Rebellion
RICHARD LIGON (CA. 1585–1662) A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657)
APHRA BEHN (1640?–89)Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave (1688)
EDWARD LONG (1734–1813) The History of Jamaica (1774)
BRYAN EDWARDS (1743–1800) The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies (1793)
RICHARD FULLER “An Account of Obi” (1789)
THOMAS ATWOOD (D. 1793) The History of the Island of Dominica (1791)
BENJAMIN MOSELEY (1742–1819) “Three-fingered Jack” (1799)
REPORT FROM A SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE ORIGIN, CAUSES, AND PROGRESS OF THE LATE INSURRECTION (1818)
MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (1775–1818)Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834)
BERNARD M. SENIOR (FL. 1815–34)Jamaica, as It Was, as It Is, and as It May Be (1835)
BRYAN EDWARDS (1743–1800) “The Negro’s Dying Speech” (1777)
JOHN MARJORIBANKS (1759–96) “Stanzas on the Execution of a Negro” (1792)
EDWARD RUSHTON (1756–1814)West-Indian Eclogues (1787)
Part 4. On the Haitian Revolution
A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF . . . THE INSURRECTION OF THE NEGROES IN S T. DOMINGO (1792)
WILLIAM ROSCOE An Inquiry into the Causes of the Insurrection (1792)
BRYAN EDWARDS (1743–1800)An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (1797)
MARCUS RAINSFORD (CA. 1750–1805?) “Life and Character of Toussaint L’Ouverture” (1805)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850) “To Toussaint L’Ouverture” (1802)
EDWARD RUSHTON (1756–1814) “Toussaint to his Troops” (1806)
MATTHEW JAMES CHAPMAN (1796–1865)Barbadoes, and Other Poems (1833)
Part 5.Songs
A . Songs of the Enslaved
WORK SONGS
DANCING SONGS
BALLADS: COMMENT AND SATIRE
SONGS OF REBELLION
FUNERAL SONGS AND CHANTS
B . Samuel Augustus Mathew s ( f l . 1 760–1822)
C. Impersonations
WILLIAM COWPER (1731–1800)“The Negro’s Complaint” (1788)
JOHN COLLINS (1742–1808) “The Desponding Negro” (1792)
JOHN WOLCOT [“PETER PINDAR”] (1738–1819)“Azid, or the Song of the Captive Negro”
WILLIAM SHEPHERD (1768–1847) “The Negro Incantation” (1797)
EAGLESFIELD SMITH (CA. 1770–1838) “The Sorrows of Yamba” (1795)
C.F.D. “Bonja Song” (ca. 1802)
MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (1775–1818 )“Yarra” (1816)
AMELIA OPIE (1769–1853) “The Black Man’s Lament” (1826)
APPENDIX Authors and Texts Classified by Location
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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