Abolishing Cruelty: The Concurrent Growth of Antislavery and Animal Welfare Sentiment in British and Colonial Literature

Carey, Brycchan (2020) Abolishing Cruelty: The Concurrent Growth of Antislavery and Animal Welfare Sentiment in British and Colonial Literature. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43 (2). pp. 203-220. ISSN 1754-0194

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12686

Abstract

This article argues that anti‐slavery and animal welfare writers actively and concurrently extended the boundaries of sympathy to promote an anti‐cruelty ethos that encompassed both suffering animals and suffering people and demanded that this shift in sensibilities be enshrined in legislation. It charts this from the 1680s to the 1770s in pamphlets and novels by Thomas Tryon, Sarah Scott, Humphrey Primatt and Laurence Sterne, before exploring parallel early nineteenth‐century debates over bull‐baiting and the abolition of slavery in texts by Thomas Day, Percival Stockdale and Elizabeth Heyrick.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: slavery, slave trade, abolitionism, anti-slavery, animals, bull-baiting, cruelty, sensibility
Subjects: Q300 English studies
V100 History by period
V300 History by topic
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 14 Jan 2020 12:44
Last Modified: 17 Feb 2022 03:30
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41899

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