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The politics of emancipation : the movement for the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, 1807-33Dixon, Peter Francis January 1972 (has links)
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A rhetorical analysis of William Wilberforce's first official proposal for the abolition of the Atlantic slave tradeZach, Anne M. 09 June 1992 (has links)
The abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was a long struggle in
British Parliament between the slave trade defenders and the abolitionists.
The Act of 1807 officially abolished the Atlantic slave trade, eighteen years
after the initial abolition proposal to Parliament. William Wilberforce was a
member of a committee that worked towards the abolition of the slave trade
and the eventual emancipation of slavery. He also was a member of
Parliament. Indeed, Wilberforce is most remembered for his committed
perseverance on behalf of abolition.
A literature review will describe the existing scholarship
pertaining to the British antislavery movement and William Wilberforce.
The literature review will also reveal that current scholarship does not
specifically rhetorically analyze the first official proposal for abolition,
presented by William Wilberforce on May 12, 1789.
The analysis presented will identify how Wilberforce
foregrounded the cultural norms of eighteenth century British culture and
how he used refutative ironies to break apart the opposition's arguments
against total abolition of the slave trade. Finally, evaluation of the analysis
will support the hypotheses that William Wilberforce's May 12, 1789 proposal
for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was the inception of debate and
discussion on the abolition of the slave trade in Parliament. / Graduation date: 1993
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The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of AbolitionEvans, Dennis F. 12 1900 (has links)
The dissertation argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abolitionists' perception that their actions were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a perceived fulfillment: abolition. Thus, the dissertation examines the rhetorical strategies used by white abolitionists to construct an abolitionist kairos that was designed to produce salvation for white Britons more than it was to help free blacks. The dissertation especially examines the three major texts produced by black persons living in England during the late eighteenth centuryIgnatius Sancho's Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho (1782), Ottobauh Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), and Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)to illustrate how black rhetoric was appropriated by whites to fulfill their own kairotic desires. By examining the rhetorical strategies employed in both white and black rhetorics, the dissertation illustrates how the abolitionists thought the movement was shaped by, and how they were shaping the movement through, kairotic time. While the dissertation contends that the abolition movement was rhetorically designed to provide redemption, and thus salvation, it illustrates that the abolitionist's intent was not merely to save the slave, but to redeem blacks first in the eyes of white Christians by opening blacks to an understanding and acceptance of God. Perhaps more importantly, abolitionists would use black salvation to buy back their own souls and the soul of their nation in the eyes of God in order to regain their own salvation lost in the slave trade. But ironically, they had to appear to be saving others to save themselves. So white abolitionists used the black narratives to persuade their overwhelmingly white audience that slavery was as bad for them as it was for the African slave. And in the process, a corpus of black writing was produced that gives current readers two glimpses of one world.
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