Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries

Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries

British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814

Sean D. Moore
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Publisher Description

This volume explores how profits from slavery underpinned the dissemination of British literature in America during the eighteenth century and how the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
7 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
4.8
MB

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