TY - JOUR
T1 - Abolishing Cruelty: The Concurrent Growth of Antislavery and Animal Welfare Sentiment in British and Colonial Literature
AU - Carey, Brycchan
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - slavery, slave trade, abolitionism, anti-slavery, animals, bull-baiting, cruelty, sensibility
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079707948&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1754-0208.12686
DO - 10.1111/1754-0208.12686
M3 - Article
VL - 43
SP - 203
EP - 220
JO - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
JF - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
SN - 1754-0194
IS - 2
ER -