Open access, downloadable articles by Brycchan Carey
This page is an index of downloadable PDF offprints of some of the published articles I have written. I aim to make as many of my articles as possible available from this page, but I can only do so once the editors and/or publishers of the journal or book in which the article first appeared have given their permission. It can often take some years before a publisher is willing to do this, so my apologies if the article you are interested in is not listed here. Currently, there are only five titles available, but I hope to add to these in the near future.
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'Olaudah Equiano: African or American?', 1650-1850: Ideas, Æsthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era,
vol 17 (2008), 229-48
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This article weighs up the evidence about Olaudah Equiano's birthplace and whether he was born in Africa or America.
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'John Wesley's "Thoughts Upon Slavery" and the Language of the Heart', The Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 85:2-3 (Summer/Autumn 2003), 269-84
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This article examines John Wesley's place in the British abolition movement and argues that he was an antislavery campaigner earlier than has been recognised.
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'"The extraordinary Negro": Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26, 2 (Spring 2003), 1-13.
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This article critically re-assesses Joseph Jekyll's Life of Ignatius Sancho and argues that, despite Jekyll's assertions, Ignatius Sancho was not born on a slave ship, nor was he likely to have been baptised in Cartagena.
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'William Wilberforce's Sentimental Rhetoric: Parliamentary Reportage and the Abolition Speech of 1789', The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 14 (2003), 281-305
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This article considers William Wilberforce's rhetorical strategies in the speech he made in the House of Commons in May 1789, and examines the ways in which that speech was reported - and misreported - in the press. 26 pages, including notes and substantial extracts from the speech.
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'Olaudah Equiano: an African Slave in Guernsey' in The Review of the Guernsey Society, 59, 2 (Summer 2003), 47-50
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This article discusses the time spent in Guernsey by Olaudah Equiano, and concludes that his presence offers evidence of slave trading in that island in the mid-eighteenth century. 4 pages.
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