Contents by Theme.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Note on Texts.- Introduction.- Select Bibliography.- John Locke, from Two Treatises of Government (1690).- Aphra Behn, from The Widow Ranter (1690).- Charles Davenant, from '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) and 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 Times (1757-58).- 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 Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of... An African Prince (1770).- Samuel Foote, The Nabob (1772).- John Hawkesworth, from An Account of the Voyages... in the Southern Hempisphere (1773).- Phillis Wheatley, To the King's Most Excellent Majesty (1773), 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 of Jamaica (1774).- Frances Burney, Letter to Mr Crisp [Omai's visit] (1774).- 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 Journey from 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 of Hudibras in Two Cantos. Written in the Time of the Unhappy Contest between Great Britain and America (1778).- Anna Seward, from Elegy on Captain Cook (1780).- James Freeth, American Contest, Bunker Hill (1780-82), The Contest (1782).- Ignatius Sancho, from Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1782).- Edmund Burke, from 'Speech on 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).
