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The negro equalled by few Europeans. Translated from the French

1790 Subjects: Antislavery movements Forms: Fiction Printing and Publishing Status: Simultaneous issues Translation Status: Retranslation English London URL

Authors of source text

Joseph Lavallée

Contributions

Anonymous (74)
translator
G.G.J and J. Robinson (George Robinson)
publisher

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Le nègre comme il y a peu de blancs, par l'auteur de "Cécile, fille d'Achmet III" has translation
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The negro equalled by few Europeans. Translated from the French translation
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The negro equalled by few Europeans. Translated from the French translation
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The Negro equalled by few Europeans, translated from the French. To which are added, poems on various subjects, moral and entertaining, by Phillis Wheatley, negro servant to Mr John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England translation

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Notes

The first of two almost simultaneous translations with reprints in Dublin and Philadelphia. This version, which lacks the author's preface, became the best known through its various reprints. Kaivalkoski-Shilov suggests that the translator manipulated the translation to make it fit better with the abolitionist cause. Extracts were also published in the Lady's Magazine and the Hibernian Magazine (both 1790). Positive review in Analytical Review, vol.VII, p.462. Positive review but critical of translation in European Review vol.17 (1791), p.50.

See Kriistina Kaivalkoski-Shilov “Translating for a good cause: Joseph Lavallée’s antislavery novel Le nègre comme il y a peu de Blancs (1789) and its two English translations (1790)”, in Target, 21:2 (2009), pp.308-332.