The dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the American Revolution There is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they claimed to represent. Meanwhile, abolitionist sentiments of the time contained contradictions as well. Abolitionists encouraged freed Christianized slaves to return to Africa. In this way, they hoped to send more missionaries to Africa in order to Christianize the continent and, at the same time, to send free blacks away from America. This tension is revealed through the dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, an African-American poet who refused to marry a man she had never met and return with him to Africa as a missionary. She was enslaved in Africa as a child and transported to Boston, where she was sold to an evangelical family. Agreeing to the proposed marriage – arranged by Congregationalist minister Samuel Hopkins – would have echoed the social mores of the time, particularly those for enslaved black women. However, due to her prodigious talents as a poet, Wheatley won her freedom a year prior to Hopkins’ arrangement, allowing her to take her future into her own hands. G.J. Barker-Benfield considers Wheatley’s story and Hopkins’s plan in the broader context of the American Revolution. The ideals of the revolution motivated Hopkins and some of his contemporaries to propose freeing African slaves and thus address the “monstrous inconsistency” fundamental to the white slave owners leading the revolution. In so doing, they presented themselves as freedom fighters who resisted the threat of slavery at the hands of British tyranny. Wheatley challenged this inconsistency and, taking the revolutionaries’ rhetoric seriously, called for liberty for all human hearts: women’s and men’s, blacks’ and whites’.
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Fish Out of Water - A Comedy ISBN: 0573111871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573111877 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The peaceful atmosphere of a hotel on the Italian Riviera is shattered by the arrival of Agatha, an outspoken widow, and her timid sister, Fiona. Agatha crushes all protests as she rounds up the guests into communal games, her unflagging spirit of togetherness invading the private lives of the other characters. All the ingredients of package holidays, late flights, double bookings, foreign food etc. - provide an evening of uproarious and innocent fun.-4 women, 3 men
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Funny Business - A Comedy ISBN: 0573019932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573019937 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: When Ferris agrees to look after his sister`s seedy hotel during her temporary absence in Benidorm he does not anticipate the arrival of a notorious journalist who writes a critical column about hotels in a Sunday newspaper.
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Up and Running! - A Comedy ISBN: 0573019169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573019166 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Veteran TV talk-show host Patrick Sumner is desperate to impress his new producer Reg Godfrey, who visits Patrick's smart London flat for drinks. But Patrick reckons without the intervention of Jenny, a pretty girl who arrives on the same evening as Reg, intent upon infiltrating Patrick's private life and even passing herself off as his wife. When Patrick's real wife returns unexpectedly from a Paris trip, Patrick is forced into a spiralling series of lies and subterfuge.-3 women, 3 men
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Wild Goose Chase ISBN: 057311501X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573115011 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Chester Dreadnought bluffs his way into the crumbling stately home of an impecunious aristocratic family, and even a trigger-happy belted Earl suffering from hallucinations cannot keep at bay the enterprising pair of jewel thieves who are pursuing their loot - not to mention Chester - round the castle. Suits of armour and secret doors, mistaken identities and dotty servants all help to provide the variety of fare that goes to the making of this wild goose chase.5 women, 5 men
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Look Who`s Talking! - A Comedy ISBN: 0573112509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573112508 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: When two unexpected guests, Jane and Brian, drop in on Sheila and Andrew, a devoted middle-age couple, what ensues is a complicated and hilarious series of misunderstandings and mistaken identities as Sheila and Andrew begin to weave an elaborate web of lies and half-truths to hide their own possible infidelities.3 women, 2 men
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Caught on the Hop - A Comedy ISBN: 0573110662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573110665 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Returning home unexpectedly early from a rendezvous with her lover, Sophie Fontaineau finds that her husband Etienne is absent and immediately suspects him of philandering. She accidentally spills brandy on her porter's trousers; the poor man soon finds himself trouserless behind a screen, desperately worried by the return of Etienne, who is disguised as The Hunchback of Notre Dame.-3 women, 2 men
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: A Toe in the Water - A Comedy ISBN: 0573019061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573019067 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Seeking peace and tranquility, Gerald goes to spend a few days in a health farm, presided over by the highly moral Mr Potter. But his hopes are soon dashed by the arrival of his secretary (declaring her undying passion for him), his daughter (intent upon naughty assignations with her boyfriend), and his wife.-3 women, 3 men
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Murder for the Asking ISBN: 0573112932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573112935 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The international Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. This publication is an annual record of the work of the Court during the period from 1 August of the preceding year to 31 July of the current year. It discusses a wide range of topics and cases before the Court pertaining to subjects such as territorial rights, law of the sea and treaty interpretation.
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Two and Two Together - A Comedy ISBN: 0573019479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573019470 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: When Rachel takes up rowing as a hobby, her husband Victor never suspects that she is meeting another man in her friend, Georgina`s house. Why should he? He is himself secretly meeting Georgina, while her husband, Henry, an actor, is at the theatre. But one day Henry returns home unexpectedly.
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: Touch and Go - A Comedy ISBN: 0573113017 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573113017 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: When Brian takes up jogging, his wife Hilary is not surprised. She has often told him he should exercise more after all the business lunches he consumes. But when Brian is ostensibly running round the park, he is, in fact, spending a couple of hours with his girlfriend, Wendy, in his good friend George's flat. The arrangement works well for some time, for while Brian is visiting Wendy, helpful George knows that there is no danger of his own dalliance being discovered; for the object of his affection is Brian's wife, Hilary It is all plain sailing until George's wife Jessica returns too soon from a business trip to America and puts the cat among the pigeons.-3 women, 2 men
Автор: Benfield Derek Название: In at the Deep End - A Comedy ISBN: 0573019827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573019821 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The highly moral Mr Potter presides over a health farm and prides himself on his high standards of decency and decorum. But when Gerald Corby, arrives in search of peace and tranquility - only to be followed by a trio of ladies - the resulting misunderstandings prove more than a headache.
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