Versions of Blackness

Introduction; A note on the texts; Part I. The Major Texts: Henry Neville 'The Isle of Pines'; Aphra Behn 'Abdelazer'; Aphra Behn 'Oroonoko'; Thomas Southerne 'Oroonoko'; Part II. Contexts: Europe, America, and Africa; From Bartolome de las Casas 'A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies'; From Juan Gines de Sepulveda 'Democrates Secundus'; From Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 'Of the Cannibals' and 'Of Coaches'; From Jose de Acosta 'On Spreading the Gospel among the Savages'; From Thomas Gage 'The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land'; From Richard Ligon 'A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados'; From Sir William Davenant 'The History of Sir Francis Drake'; From Antoine Biet 'Voyage de la France Equinoxiale en l'Isle de Cayenne'; From William Byam 'An Exact Relation of the Most Execrable Attempts of John Allin'; From Charles de Rochefort 'The History of the Caribby-Islands'; From Jean-Baptiste du Tetre 'Histoire Generale des Antilles Habitees par les Francois'; From George Warren 'An Impartial Description of Surinam'; From 'Great Newes from the Barbadoes'; From Morgan Godwyn 'The Negros and Indians Advocate'; From Thomas Tryon 'Friendly Advice to the Gentleman Planters of the East and West Indies'; Discussions of Colonialism; From Thomas Thorowgood 'Iewes in America'; From Hamon L'Estrange 'Americans no Iewes'; From Thomas Hobbes 'Leviathan'; From Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon 'A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr Hobbes's book, entitled 'Leviathan'; From John Locke 'Two Treatises of Government'; The Germantown declaration.