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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]

… William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a key figure in the successive campaigns for the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery in Britain. His long parliamentary speeches were crucial in the success of his fight, but it is primarily his … and delineated a new model of sociability that was philanthropic and religious. People > Politics Mots-clés Abolition Slavery Evangelicalism Re-moralization Christianity Clapham Friendship Pitt Hannah More Philanthropy Activism Charity … of abolition in the British Parliament. He came to embody the fight for the abolition of the slave trade and then of slavery itself and his long and famous speeches at Westminster have turned him into the moral conscience of the nation. …

Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… on crusades against poverty, the perverted manners of the Great, the ill-conceived education of women and the evils of slavery. She devised an original philanthropic model of sociability, a sociability of the heart, with a strongly … Belief Mots-clés Bluestocking Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women Wilberforce Hannah More (1745-1833), who was one of the first women writers to become famous in Britain and … she used her pen and her literary talents to promote four main causes, the reformation of manners, the abolition of slavery, the education of women and the alleviation of poverty. Having started as a provincial schoolteacher living in …

Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]

… of colour with the coming of the French Revolution. Places > Trade Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Colonialism Slavery Theatre Marronage Women Saint-Domingue As historical scholarship over the past few decades has shown , … of Color of Cap Français’, in David Barry Gaspard and Darlene Clark Hine (eds.), More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1996), p. 279-297; Dominque Rogers and Stewart King, … bonds. An example of this is the black Creole and future revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. Toussaint was born into slavery but appears to have been granted freedom by 1776, when he was working as the right-hand assistant of the manager …

Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… People > Art and Literature People > Politics Mots-clés Periodical Print culture Politeness Army Morality Politics Slavery Women Theatre Wit 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 …

Aphra Behn [ Art and Literature ]

… inédit fut largement diffusé dans les cercles littéraires européens.   People > Art and Literature Mots-clés author Slavery espionage Salons Theatre Une vie de plume et d'aventures Il existe peu de traces de l’enfance d’Aphra Behn. … plume sous la Restauration. Ce statut inédit fut largement diffusé dans les cercles littéraires européens.   … author … Slavery … espionage … Salons … Theatre … Aphra Behn …

Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… time when the tea-table was coded as domestic and feminine. The production of sugar was closely linked to transatlantic slavery, as documented in James Grainger's georgic poem The Sugar Cane (1764). The 1790s saw a major sugar boycott, in which female consumers participated and which aimed at the emancipation of slaves. Information about slavery in the West Indies was distributed through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & … Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth Century‘, Journal of Design History (vol. 21, no. 3, 2008), p. 205-221. Anti-slavery sentiment was growing in Britain towards the end of the eighteenth century. Combining political statement with …