A post-colonail ctitique of Blake's Poem "The little Black Boy"

A Post-colonial criticism would be use in the analysis of William Blake’s poem “The Little Black Boy.” The point of focus in this theory is to discover how the poem explicitly represents the various aspects of post-colonial oppression. Below are some of the resources that will be use to support the analysis of this poem .

1. My Reading of Blake's “The Little Black Boy” | Significant Pursuit by ...
   

   Sep 27, 2008 ... Helen Losse has a provocative blog entry about the poem “The Little Black Boy” by WIlliam Blake. She asks whether ther...

   

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2. BBC - History - British History in depth: The First Black Britons
   

   Feb 17, 2011 ... Sukhdev Sandhu reveals the origins of Britain's black history. ... In 1731, the Lord Mayor of London, responding t...

   

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3. Black History - Articles - Making History
   

   There seem to be three distinct phases in writing about the history of Black ... the first modern historian to mention the presence of ...

   

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4. BBC - London - History - London, slavery and abolition
   

   Mar 23, 2007 ... Academic Dr Hakim Adi writes here about London's connections with the slave trade. ... It was from London that som...

   

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 The poem is about a little black boy born in Africa who latter came to know God and his identity through his mother’s teaching. Literally, Blake wrote this poem in the 18^th century during the time when Africans were enslaved in London.  The maltreatment of the blacks may have influenced him to write this poem. The poem also reveals how African’s were oppressed by the whites in London because of the skin color and inferiority. Hence, this was one of the reasons why the little boy said he is black, but his soul is pure. He also said his black color is like a cloud that will someday fate. This shows that the whites did not like the blacks because of their color, and they decided to treat them as anaimals. This poem really reveals aspects of colonial oppression of Africans.  Thus, a post-colonial analysis of this essay will center on the issues of slavery, racism, and religion transformation that most blacks encountered during the colonial era.