[1788] - Ann Yearsley publishes Poems on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Ann Yearsley, ‘A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788)’,
  http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/yearsley1.htm
• British Abolitionists, ‘Ann Yearsley’,
  http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/yearsley.htm
• The Abolition Project, ‘Women & Women’s Groups’,
  http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_38.html
• University of Pennsylvania, ‘Ann Yearsley, “Addressed to Sensibility”’,
  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~curran/250–96/Sensibility/yearssen.html
• Robert Edward Mitchell, ‘“The soul that dreams it shares the power it feels so well”: The Politics of Sympathy in the Abolitionist Verse of Williams and Yearsley’, Romanticism on the Net, 29–30, (2003),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2003/v/n29–30/007719ar.html
• Kerri Andrews, ‘Countering “the poverty of thought in novels”: Radical Authorship and The Royal Captives by Ann Yearsley’, Romanticism on the Net, 45 (2007),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2007/v/n45/015825ar.html
• Moira Ferguson, ‘Resistance and Power in the Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley’, Eighteenth Century, 27.3 (1986), 247–68
• Jerome J. McGann, The Politics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style (Oxford, 1996)
• Kerri Andrews, ‘Ann Yearsley: A Literary Career Reconsidered’, Literature Compass, 5.1 (2008), 90–105