Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… ‘people’. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Mots-clés Morality Periodicals Politeness Print culture Politics Slavery Theatre Wit Women This article will not repeat data easily accessible elsewhere about Steele’s career as a … 19 Steele owned, through his first wife, a considerable plantation in Barbados though he had little to say about slavery beyond a story in The Spectator about a merchant who sold his ‘Indian’ lover in Barbados into slavery, even though she was carrying his child, a story that moved Steele to ‘tears’, though perhaps more because of …
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