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- Title
GRAINGER'S WEST INDIAN PLANTER PROPERTY AND AUTHORITY IN THE SUGAR-CANE.
- Authors
Schweiger, Tristan J.
- Abstract
This article examines the relationship between eighteenth-century ideologies of property rights and imperial authority in James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane (1764). Placing Grainger into dialogue with Joshua Steele, a Barbadian planter and partial critic of existing Caribbean slavery, the article shows how Grainger's poem seeks to articulate planters' property rights in sweeping fashion in order to render the scope of imperial authority as expansive as possible. The fact that The Sugar-Cane is unable to fully suppress Atlantic slavery's terrible realities registers anxieties not only about empire itself but also about the nature and meaning of property in the colonies.
- Subjects
SUGAR-Cane, The (Poem); POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism; GRAINGER, James; PROPERTY rights -- History; SLAVERY in literature; AUTHORITY in literature
- Publication
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2017, Vol 50, Issue 4, p401
- ISSN
0013-2586
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/ecs.2017.0031