Abstract
The notion of pleasing her uncle Sir Thomas Bertram, who had returned after two years in the West Indies, when teenage Fanny Price questions and shows pleasure in his information on the issue of the slave trade has surprised a number of people. As one critic puts it, ‘We may wonder what “pleasure” she could get from information about the slave trade.’1 I think the author confronts us with a clear signal. Suppose that the word ‘pleasure’ was used pretty much as now, including the idea of a felon being detained ‘at her majesty’s pleasure’, which would involve a concept of choice as in the fifth definition in Johnson’s Dictionary. Ruled out would be the use of ‘pleasure’ as trivial enjoyment or delights pursued for their own sake.KeywordsQuarterly ReviewFinal ChapterSugar PlantationGeographical ReferenceChattel SlaveryThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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