The grateful slave: the emergence of race in eighteenth-century British and American culture

The prehistory of the grateful slave

The origin of the grateful slave: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack, 1722

The evolution of the grateful slave 1754-1777: the emergence of racial difference in the slavery debate and the novel

The 1780s: transition

Gratitude in the black Atlantic: Equiano writes back, 1789

The 1790s: ameliorationist convergence

Epilogue: grateful slaves, faithful slaves, mammies and martyrs: the transatlantic afterlife of the grateful slave.