Jane Austen’s Position on the Slave Trade
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Although Edward W. Said has challenged Jane Austens literary statusand traditional English literary canon, many Austen critics have beenmute, singularly avoiding the issue of Austen and post-colonialismitself. Some of the critics, however, have attempted to defend Austen asan icon of English literature. Gabrielle D. V. White also made an effortto portray her as a sympathizer for the anti-slave trade movement and asan Abolitionist. But his argument is scarcely convincing since it islargely hypothetical and subjective. And his boasting of Parliamentspassing of the Anti-Slave Trade Bill in connection with Austens sympa-thy for Abolitionists ignores the historical background about Britain andthe slave trade.Compared to Whites unconvincing argument, B. C. Southams argu-ment more accurately presents us with Austens various relationshipswith the British navy and the empire. Based on Southams claim, it canbe said that Austen accepted the building up of the British empire as aninevitable process like many other contemporary intellectuals and liter-ary men of her time, although she did not actively participate in theimperial expansion itself.Austens latter novels, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasionbettershow her attitude on the issue of the slave trade, slavery, and the Britishempire. In each novel, she alludes to the slave trade or the West Indies.But she never goes beyond the boundary of the allusion. Like SirThomass (or anyone elses) silence on the subject, Austen is mute aboutslavery and the misery of the slaves in the West Indies. Especially in
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