Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-171) and index.
Contents
Reading Pope/reasoning race : Enlightenment humanism and the Chain's discursive legacy -- Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Ottobah Cugoano : perspectives on a theological chain -- Ignatius Sancho and Laurence Sterne : The measure of benevolence and the "Cult of Sensibility" -- Dampier's Hottentots, Swift's Yahoos, and Equiano's Ibos : imagining Blackness in a colonialist discourse -- Reading The history of Mary Prince : the politics of race and gender.