English Trader, Indian Maid Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World - An Inkle and Yarico Reader

Name: English Trader, Indian Maid Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World - An Inkle and Yarico Reader
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ISBN: 9780801861062

ISBN-10: 0801861063

ISBN-13: 9780801861062

Edition: 1999

Authors: Frank Felsenstein

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On March 13, 1711, an article appeared in The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violent death by Yarico, a beautiful Indian maiden. When he and Yarico become lovers, Inkle promises to clothe her in silks and transport her in carriages when he returns with her to England. Some months later, they are picked up after Yarico succeeds in signaling a passing English ship. But upon reaching Barbados, Inkle immediately sells Yarico into slavery -- raising the price he demands when he learns that Yarico is pregnant with his child. Based on a real life account in Richard Ligon's History of Barbados published half a…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 8/12/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.55" wide x 9.88" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


A Note on Texts


Introduction


English Versions and Some Translations



A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (Extracts)




The Spectator, no. 11




"The Story of Inkle and Yarico, Taken out of the Eleventh Spectator"



"An Epistle from Yarico to Inkle, after He Had Sold Her for a Slave"



"Yarico to Inkle: An Epistle"




"The Story of Inkle and Yarico, from the Eleventh Spectator"



Yarico to Inkle: An Epistle



Avaro and Amanda: A Poem in Four Canto's, Taken from "The Spectator," Vol. I, No. XI (Extracts)




"Yarico's Epistle to Inkle: A Poem, Occasioned by Reading Spectator, Vol. I, No. 11"




"Continuation of the Story of Inkle and Yarico"




Yarico to Inkle: An Epistle




"Epistle from Yarico to Inkle"



"Yarico to Inkle"




Inkle and Yarico: An Opera, in Three Acts



The American Heroine: A Pantomime in Three Acts




"Yarico to Inkle"




"Epistle from Yarico to Inkle" (Extract)



American Versions



"Amicus," "Yarico to Inkle"



"Yarico's Lament"



Caribbean Versions



Barbadoes (Extracts)




"A Barbadian," Inkle and Yarico, a Legend of Barbados (Extract)



"The Lament of Yarico"



Petronius, "The Ephesian Matron"



Travels and Voyages into Africa, Asia, America, the East and West-Indies (Extract)




"The Mad Mother"



Chronology


Bibliography


Index