@thesis{thesis,
		author={wijayanti  Irna},
		title ={THE ROLE OF SYMBOLS IN REFLECTING THE SLAVERY OF
AFRICAN FROM 14
TH
CENTURY UP TO 19
TH
CENTURY 
IN WILLIAM BLAKE‟S THE LITTLE BLACK BOY},
		year={2011},
		url={http://eprints.unisbank.ac.id/id/eprint/790/},
		abstract={This thesis is about symbols in William Blake?s  The Little Black Boy  that reflects 
the slavery of African from  14
th
century up to 19
th
century. William Blake wrote  The Little 
Black Boy on 18
th
century, when the slave trade still happened.
The aim of this thesis is to find out the role of figure of speech and the slavery of African 
that took place from 14
th
century up to 19
th
century. The figure of speech is specified to the 
symbols in William Blake?s  The Little Black Boy  reflecting the  condition on 14
th
century 
up to 19
th
century.
This thesis applies two methods: method of the study and method of approach. 
Library research is conducted in library by reading  books  and internet. Semiotic approach 
as the method of approach  is applied in  which the literary work is treated as structural 
approach and sociological approach.
This discussion is divided into three sections: the symbols in William Blake?s  The 
Little Black Boy; the slavery of African  from 14
th
century up to 19
th
century; and the role of 
symbols in reflecting the slavery of African  from 14
th
century up to 19
th
century in William 
Blake?s  The Little Black Boy.  The first section  tries to find out the role of symbols in the 
poem. The second section tries to reflect the slavery of African from 14
th
up to 19
th
century. 
And third section  tries to analyze the  role of symbols to reflect the slavery of African  from
14
th
century up to 19
th
century, as the main point of this thesis.
The findings of the analysis are that  the symbols which be found in William 
Blake?s  The Little Black Boy; they are  ?black? and ?black bodies? represents the main 
figure namely the child of slave.  Moreover, several symbols e.g. heat away, sunburnt face, 
the grove, etc. which represent condition of the black skin  people. The slavery was begun 
in the 14
th
century. African was captured to become slave by Portuguese; so that slave trade 
developed as a lucrative commercial system. The slave trade contributed to the commercial 
and industrial revolution of the 18
th
and 19
th
century. The symbol ?southern wild? refers to 
location of slavery that is Africa. The symbol  ?lamb? symbolized freedom. The movement 
against slavery slowly was succeed abolished slavery which was end on the19
th
century. 
Indirectly, African got their freedom and starts their new life.}
		}