What motive do authors—specifically authors of Inkle and Yarico retellings—have when including religion in their texts? When starting out with this assignment, I had no idea if I would get any useful results since the document I chose was only 1 page, consisting of around 222 words. When I started writing out my document, I […]

The archival document that I chose was titled “Yarico to Inkle” describing Yarico’s pain and torture at the hands of Inkle’s betrayal. This poem was published in 1792 in Philadelphia in a magazine called “The American Museum or Universal Magazine” primarily targeted to more wealthy people who could afford magazine subscriptions. It was written by […]

Comparing the Emotions of Different Texts How does the perspective, type of document, publication date and place of publication of a text effect the emotional value of texts that are derived from the same original story? The two texts I will compare to answer the question above will be Yarico to Inkle by an unknown […]

The story of Inkle and Yarico starts out as a classic tale of romance: after being stranded in the West Indies, a man named Thomas Inkle is cared for by a young Native American woman named Yarico and the two fall in love. But, when they reach Barbados, Inkle remembers his love for wealth is […]

The version of the document I found was likely an already transcribed, formatted version of an Inkle and Yarico poem and subject to another’s editorial decisions. The document is a beautiful and well-written poem detailing the meeting, engagement, and eventually the betrayal of Inkle and Yarico. It was written by Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford […]

Inkle and Yarico is a popular story that circulated across our culture from the late 18th century to well into the 19th century. It describes a colonialist, Inkle; someone who is being colonized (often portrayed as Native American), Yairco; and the love between them. Because it caught the attention of the general public, several new […]

Nobody wants to be betrayed. But it’s inevitable; sometimes, we fall for the wrong people and they leave us shattered and empty. The story of Inkle and Yarico illustrates the tragedy, mixed in with the historical forces of colonialism, slave trade, and the layered interaction between the Old World of the Western Civilization and the […]

My research question is “To what extent do different versions of Inkle and Yarico express Yarico’s dissent with her treatment by her people and Inkle ?”. I’m aware that “dissent” is a subjective term, but I tried to comparatively measure it using the various tools we were introduced to during our previous lectures. I took advantage […]

For my Inkle and Yarico Analysis project I selected a version of the story from a Milwaukee newspaper in 1850. The story is relatively short, covering only about two paragraphs with 330 words total, and follows the typical Inkle and Yarico story, with Inkle ultimately selling Yarico at the end, despite her carrying his child. […]

How do the specific details of “Inkle and Yarico” retellings shift the message of the story? The “spark notes” version I chose to analyze a version of the “Inkle and Yarico” story published in the New York Telescope on November 4th, 1826. This version of “Inkle and Yarico” is particularly short at only 221 words […]