English Renaissance Perceptions of Slavery in the New World

FAIN: FT-12502-75

Carolyn Prager
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York (New York, NY 10007-1044)

To study English perceptions of the New World slavery in the 16th and earlier 17th Centuries using documentary evidence in contemporary voyage literature, pro-colonial tract and sermon, political and philosophical essary, and general literature, especially the drama. The project will address itself in particular to the generation of a political rather than an ethical accommodation in England to the topical issue of slavery in the Americas.