Empire and identity: an eighteenth-century sourcebook / edited by Stephen H. Gregg

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246).

John Locke, from Tivo Treatises of Government (1690) -- Aphra Behn, from The Widdow Ranter (1690) -- Charles Davenant, from Discourse on the Plantation Trade (1698) -- Joseph Pitts, from A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans ... With an Account of the Author's being taken Captive, and of his Escape (1704) -- Richard Steele, The Spectator, no. 11 (1711) [Inkle and Yarico] -- Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison, The Spectator, no. 50 (1711) [The Indian Kings] -- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, no. 69 (1711) [The Royal Exchange] -- Alexander Pope, from Windsor-Forest (1713) -- [Jocelyn], from An Essay on Money and Bullion (1718) -- Daniel Defoe, from Captain Singleton (1720) from A Plan of the English Commerce (1728) -- James Thomson, Britannia (1729) -- George Lillo, from The London Merchant (1731) -- James Thomson and David Mallet, Rule Britannia (1740) -- John Dyer, from The Ruins of Rome (1740) -- Joseph Warton, The Dying Indian (1755) -- John Brown, from An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757) -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, from Letters ... Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa (1763) -- William Smith, from An Historical Account of the Expedition Against the Ohio Indians (1766) -- James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, from A Narrative of the MostRemarkable Particulars in the Life of ...An African Prince [1770] -- Samuel Foote, The Nabob; a comedy, in Three Acts (1772) -- John Hawkesworth, from An Account of the Voyages ...in the Southern Hemisphere (1773) -- Phillis Wheatley, To the King's Most Excellent Majesty (1768) On being brought from Africa to America (1773) To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth (1773) A Farewel to AMERICA (1773) -- Edward Long, from The History ofJamaica (1774) -- Frances Bumey, Letter to Mr Crisp (1774) [Omai's visit] -- Edmund Burke, from Speech ...for Conciliation with the Colonies (1775) -- Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations (1776) -- Janet Schaw, from Journal of a Lady of Quality Being the Narrative of a Journeyfrom Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal (1774-76) -- Jemima Kindersley, from Letters from ... the East Indies (1777) -- James Cook, from A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777) -- Joseph Peart, from A Continuation ofHudibras in Two Cantos. Written in the Time of the Unhappy Contest between Great Britain and America (1778) -- Anna Seward, from An Elegy on Captain Cook (1780) -- John Freeth, American Contest (1780) -- Bunker Hill (1780) -- The Contest (1782) -- Ignatius Sancho, from The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African (1782) -- Edmund Burke, from Mr. Burke's Speech ...on Mr. Fox's East India Bill (1784) -- Ottobah Cugoano, from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787) -- Coda: John Freeth, Botany Bay (1790)