Versions of Blackness key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century / [edited by] Derek Hughes.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, |
| Description | xxxiii, 381 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Hughes, Derek, 1944- |
| Included Work | Neville, Henry, 1620-1694 Isle of pines. |
| Included Work | Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Abdelazer. |
| Included Work | Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko. |
| Included Work | Southerne, Thomas, 1660-1746. Oroonoko. |
| Contents | Part one: The major texts. The isle of pines / Henry Neville ; Abdelazer / Aphra Behn ; Oroonoko / Aphra Behn ; Oroonoko / Thomas Southerne -- Part two: Contexts : Europe, America, and Africa. A short account of the destruction of the Indies / from Bartolomé de las Casas ; Democrates secundus / from Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda ; "Of the cannibals" and "Of coaches" / from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ; On spreading the Gospel among the savages / from José de Acosta ; The English-American his travail by sea and land / from Thomas Gage ; A true and exact history of the island of Barbados / from Richard Ligon ; The history of Sir Francis Drake / from Sir William Davenant ; Voyage de la France eqinoxiale en l'Isle de Cayenne / from Antoine Biet ; An exact relation of the most execrable attempts of John Allin / from William Byam ; The history of the Caribby-Islands / from Charles de Rochefort ; Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François / from Jean-Baptiste du Tertre ; An impartial description of Surinam / from Goerge Warren ; From Great newes from the Barbadoes ; The Negro's and Indians advocate / from Morgan Godwyn ; Friendly advice to the gentlemen planters of the East and West Indies / from Thomas Tryon -- Discussions of colonialism. Iewes in America / from Thomas Thorowgood ; Americans no iewes / from Hamon l'Estrange ; Leviathan / from Thomas Hobbes ; A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbe's book, entitled Leviathan / from Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon ; Two treatises of government / from John Locke ; The Germantown protest. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-377) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006028389 |
| ISBN | 0521869307 |
| ISBN | 9780521869300 |
| ISBN | 0521689562 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780521689564 (pbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |