ENG 3362 Lecture 4: Race and Empire

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 3362
• Professor: Lauren Gillingham

Document Summary

Interested in the way haggart exploits and makes use of the kinds of issues in race and gender. Novel is full of contradictions and is in many ways using difference of race and gender to fuel the plot and titillate its readers while at the same time troubling and complicating some of the stereotypes it contradicts. 1772 - somerset case: ended slavery in britain. Legal case in engalnd where a slave who had been brought over from virginia (with his owner) met a group of abolitioists while in england and ran away from his master. His master prosecuted in law t have him returned as a base of property. Judge ruled in favour of the slave as there was no legal foundation o ownership over another human being in britain, so the slave had the legal right to befreed from his amster and was not forced to return.