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Genre/Form: | Literature Caribbean literature (English) English literature West Indian literature (English) Literary collections Anthologies (form) Belles-lettres (texts) Anthologies |
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Named Person: | Anthologie; Englisch |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas W Krise |
ISBN: | 0226453901 9780226453903 0226453928 9780226453927 |
OCLC Number: | 41017379 |
Description: | xii, 358 pages : map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | From A true and exact history of the island of Barbados (1657) / Richard Ligon -- From Jamaica viewed (1661) / Edmund Hickeringill -- From Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies (1684) / Thomas Tryon -- Trip to Jamaica (1698) / Edward Ward -- Speech made by a Black of Guardaloupe (1709) / Anonymous -- Speech of Moses Bon Saam (1735) / Anonymous -- From The speech of Mr. John Talbot Campo-bell (1736) / Robert Robertson -- Story of Inkle and Yarico and An epistle from Yarico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery (1738) / Frances Seymour -- Poems from Caribbeana (1741) / The "Ingenious Lady" of Barbados -- Sugar cane: a poem, in four books (1764) / James Grainger -- From A general description of the West-Indian islands (1767) / John Singleton -- "Carmen, or, an Ode," in Edward Long's A history of Jamaica (1774) / Francis Williams -- From Jamaica, a poem, in three parts (1777) / Anonymous. |
Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Thomas W. Krise. |
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Abstract:
This anthology collects descriptions, poems, narratives, satires and essays written in and about the British West Indies between 1657 and 1777. It offers period commentaries on slavery, colonialism, gender relations, African and European history, natural history, agriculture and medicine.
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