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Title
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I GO TO MAKE FREEMEN OF SLAVES: ROMANTIC ABOLITIONIST POETRY AND THE CREATION OF NEGRO FORT.
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Author
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Satterwhite, Christopher Scott
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Abstract/Description
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During the War of 1812, the Royal Navy dispatched a young military officer named Edward Nicolls to urge American slaves to desert their masters and join British forces in a war against the United States. Though the primary intention of his mission was to hurt the American slave economy, Nicolls and his men had greater abolitionist ambitions as spelled out in a passionately worded proclamation to the interracial anny assembled in Pensacola. Upon close inspection, the rhetoric of Nicolls's 1814...
Show moreDuring the War of 1812, the Royal Navy dispatched a young military officer named Edward Nicolls to urge American slaves to desert their masters and join British forces in a war against the United States. Though the primary intention of his mission was to hurt the American slave economy, Nicolls and his men had greater abolitionist ambitions as spelled out in a passionately worded proclamation to the interracial anny assembled in Pensacola. Upon close inspection, the rhetoric of Nicolls's 1814 proclamation discloses an intimate relationship between the abolitionist colonel and the literature of the abolitionist movement, in particular the poetry ofthe early British Romantics. In this proclamation, Nicolls demonstrates the influence of a distinct Romantic idealism that transcends race and nationality while actively pursuing a visionary discourse that characterizes some of the most influential poetry of Romantic abolitionism. The purpose of this thesis is to establish the transatlantic connections between the discourse created by Romantic abolitionist poetry and the creation of the largest maroon colony in the history of North America-Negro Fort.
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Date Issued
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2012
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Identifier
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WFE0000322, uwf:60999
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Format
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Document (PDF)