Jane Austen also had contemporary women peer writers who were deeply
anti-slavery. Charlotte Smith was the best known in her day. Ellen
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 10:26?AM Nancy Mayer via groups.io
<regencyresearcher@...> wrote:
Read her letters. There are more than passing references to the Clarkston
brothers and abolition. It was her letters that had me researching Sierre
Leone that the Clarkston brothers settled with freed slaves. I once worked
with a lady from Sierre Leone who told me that the Clarkston brothers had
statues of them and streets named after them there. School children study
about the Clarkston brothers in their history classes.
References to Antigua and slavery in the novels can be taken in many ways
in the 21st century that may have been incomprehensible to those of the
19th.
nancy
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 9:54?AM Liz Anne Potamianos via groups.io
<lizannepotamianos@...> wrote:
A good starting place for clues about Jane Austen's views on slavery and
the abolitionist movement can be found in Mansfield Park.
The title alone directs the reader immediately to the Lord Mansfield,
particularly his judgment in the Somerset v Stewart case and his care for
his nephew's illegitimate daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle, whose mother was
an enslaved woman of African descent. The story of Fanny Price is a thinly
veiled portrait of the difficulties of the life of an enslaved girl.
Liz Anne
On Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 04:09:25 AM EDT, Ellen Moody <
ellen.moody@...> wrote:
Yes. And perhaps Sanditon with use of mulatto heroine.
One wishes for more.
Ellen
On Aug 22, 2024, at 12:46?AM, Tamar Lindsay via groups.io <dicconf=
[email protected]> wrote:
?There are indications in Mansfield Park and Emma.
Ellen Moody