A 1789 poem by Mary Leadbeater praising Edmund Burke’s speech supporting resolutions to end the slave trade.
Creators: Mary Leadbeater
Date of Creation: 1789
Place of origin: Ballitore, Ireland
Physical measurements: Eight-page manuscript booklet.
Materials: Laid paper, ink
Process by which it was made: Manuscript
Current location: UCSB Library Special Research Collections.
Further Reading
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York, 2018.
Fuentes, Marisa. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. Philadelphia, 2016.
Ghaddar, J. J., and Michelle Caswell. “‘To go beyond’: Towards a Decolonial Archival Practice.” Archival Silence 19, no. 2 (June 2019): 71-85.
Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe 12, no. 2 (June 2008): 1-14.
Schellenberg, Betty. Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Information contributed by Rachael King.