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Book Letters from Thomas Pringle  as Secretary of the Anti  Slavery Society

Download or read book Letters from Thomas Pringle as Secretary of the Anti Slavery Society written by Thomas Pringle and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Pringle

Download or read book Thomas Pringle written by Randolph Vigne and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fine biography. [It] is a most satisfying book and an important contribution to South African scholarship. CAPE TIMES Scottish poet, fighter for human rights in the Cape Colony, and abolitionist, reveals the role this key Enlightenment figure played in Africa and Britain. This biography of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), poet, fighter for human rights in the Cape Colony, and abolitionist, reveals the role this key Enlightenment figure played in Africa and Britain. Honoured in South Africa as 'the father of South African English poetry', for his part in achieving a free press, for his fight for the settlers' rights in the colony, in Scotland as the founding editor of Blackwood's Magazine, and in England as instrumental inbringing in abolition, Thomas Pringle has not yet had the attention he deserves. Born on the Scottish Borders, Pringle entered literary life in late Englightenment Edinburgh, but in 1820 led a party of settlers to theCape Colony. After running a school, launching a literary journal and co-editing the Cape's first independent newspaper, he formed a group to fight for democratic rights for both the settlers and the dispossessed indigenous people. His biography reveals the important part he played in the literary and political world across two continents, and in championing the Khoisan and the increasingly dispossessed Nguni people. On returning to England he became Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and on 15 June 1834 announced the implementation of abolition. After actively opposing the apartheid government in South Africa Randolph Vigne worked in exile as a London publisher andlatterly, in Britain and South Africa, as author and editor of European and African historical studies. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe): UCT Press

Book Cover for Thomas Pringle s Collection of Autographs

Download or read book Cover for Thomas Pringle s Collection of Autographs written by Thomas Pringle and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The front cover of an autograph and correspondence album (approximately 80 items) assembled by Scottish poet Thomas Pringle with letters from poets, novelists, essayists, and other writers. The letters in this collection were disbound prior to acquisition by the Gilder Lehrman Collection. They are itemized alphabetically in the range of GLC 496.128-.276, intermittently. Pringle was a Scottish poet and became Secretary of the (British) Anti-Slavery Society in 1827, and some of these letters have come from his correspondence.

Book Work of Words

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Harry Thurston
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780773512870
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Work of Words written by John Harry Thurston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna Moodie has long been acknowledged as a key figure in pre-Confederation Canadian literature but most of her work has been overlooked or ignored by scholars and readers. The Work of Words not only provides the first comprehensive examination of the whole of Moodie's writing but also revolutionizes Moodie scholarship by overturning the myths that have cast her as pioneer heroine, one-woman garrison, or paranoid schizophrenic.

Book Daniel O Connell and the Anti Slavery Movement

Download or read book Daniel O Connell and the Anti Slavery Movement written by Christine Kinealy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous histories on O’Connell have dealt predominantly with his attempts to secure a repeal of the 1800 Act of Union and on his success in achieving Catholic Emancipation in 1829, Kinealy focuses instead on the neglected issue of O’Connell’s contribution to the anti-slavery movement in the United States.

Book The Poetical Works of Thomas Pringle

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Thomas Pringle written by Thomas Pringle and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Mary Prince

Download or read book The History of Mary Prince written by Mary Prince and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.

Book Imperial Underworld

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kirsten McKenzie
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-14
  • ISBN : 1107070732
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Imperial Underworld written by Kirsten McKenzie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the political exposés of an escaped convict-turned-activist and sheds new light on nineteenth-century British imperial reform.

Book The Culture of English Antislavery  1780 1860

Download or read book The Culture of English Antislavery 1780 1860 written by David Turley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh overall account of organised antislavery by focusing on the active minority of abolutionists throughout the country. The analysis of their culture of reform demonstrates the way in which alliances of diverse religious groups roused public opinion and influenced political leaders. The resulting definition of the distinctive `reform mentality' links antislavery to other efforts at moral and social improvement and highlights its contradictory relations to the social effects of industrialization and the growth of liberalism.

Book Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum written by British Library. Dept. of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years

Download or read book Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1888 1893

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 950 pages

Download or read book 1888 1893 written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Additions To the Manuscripts

Download or read book Catalogue of Additions To the Manuscripts written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flora Lyndsay  Or  Passages in an Eventful Life

Download or read book Flora Lyndsay Or Passages in an Eventful Life written by Susanna Moodie and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora Lyndsay is Susanna Moodie’s prequel to Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings. Though Moodie fictionalizes herself in the context of this novel, Flora Lyndsay remains a close personalized record of her family’s experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic. Despite the limited critical attention it receives, Flora Lyndsay reveals Moodie’s style, her sense of form, and her distinctive approach to writing female autobiography. This edition, complete with a wide corpus of endnotes, an extensive list of emendations, and a critical introduction, helps address this oversight and gives a closer look at the iconic phenomenon that is Susanna Moodie.

Book Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere

Download or read book Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere written by Raphael Dalleo and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean studies, Raphael Dalleo constructs a new literary history of the region that is both comprehensive and innovative. He examines how changes in political, economic, and social structures have produced different sets of possibilities for writers to imagine their relationship to the institutions of the public sphere. In the process, he provides a new context for rereading such major writers as Mary Seacole, José Martí, Jacques Roumain, Claude McKay, Marie Chauvet, and George Lamming, while also drawing lesser-known figures into the story. Dalleo's comparative approach will be important to Caribbeanists from all of the region's linguistic traditions, and his book contributes even more broadly to debates in Latin American and postcolonial studies about postmodernity and globalization.

Book Walter Scott and Fame

Download or read book Walter Scott and Fame written by Robert Mayer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Scott and Fame is a study of correspondences between Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking world in the early nineteenth century. Examining authorship, reading, and fame, the book is based on extensive archival research, especially in the collection of letters to Scott in the National Library of Scotland. Robert Mayer demonstrates that in Scott's literary correspondence constructions of authorship, reading strategies, and versions of fame are posited, even theorized. Scott's reader-correspondents invest him with power but they also attempt to tap into or appropriate some of his authority. Scott's version of authorship sets him apart from important contemporaries like Wordsworth and Byron, who adhered, at least as Scott viewed the matter, to a rarefied conception of the writer as someone possessed of extraordinary power. The idea of the author put in place by Scott in dialogue with his readers establishes him as a powerful figure who is nevertheless subject to the will of his audience. Scott's literary correspondence also demonstrates that the reader can be a very powerful figure and that we should regard reading not just as the reception of texts but also as the apprehension of an author-function. Thus, Scott's correspondence makes it clear that the relationship between authors and readers is a dynamic, often fraught, connection, which needs to be understood in terms of the new culture of celebrity that emerged during Scott's working life. Along with Byron, the study shows, Scott was at the centre of this transformation.

Book The Backwoods of Canada

Download or read book The Backwoods of Canada written by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired army officer. The Backwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine1s epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately following her arrival in North America, is an important record of nineteenth-century pioneering and a rich personal memoir of a woman. It has become a foundation work of Canadian Iiterature.