Books by Srividhya Swaminathan

In the eighteenth century, literary representations of slavery encompassed a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Without eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world.

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? This book examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate.