S. Thomas 
Telling West Indian Lives [PDF ebook] 
Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804–1834

Introduction 1. Anne Hart Gilbert and John Gilbert: Creole Benevolence and Antislavery 2. William Dawes in Antigua 3. Methodist Life Narratives 4. Robert Wedderburn and the ‘cause of humanity’ 5. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself Conclusion

Sue Thomas is Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Imperialism, Reform and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre and The Worlding of Jean Rhys and the co-author of England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction, with Ann Blake and Leela Gandhi. She has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers and postcolonial literatures.