The grateful slave : the emergence of race in eighteenth-century British and American culture /by George Boulukos.

"The figure of the grateful slave, devoted to his or her master in thanks for kind treatment, is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century writings. Yet this important trope, linked with discourses that tried to justify racial oppression, slavery and colonialism, has been overlooked in eighteenth-century literary research. Boulukos offers a fresh account of the development of racial difference and of its transatlantic dissemination."--Provided by the publisher.