Slavery and the Romantic ImaginationUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 14.09.2017 - 312 Seiten Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title |
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... slaves and British masters . Among these complaints , the case of " Tommy " stands out.2 On 9 February 1819 , Tommy appeared before the fiscal ( judge ) of the colony to state his case . Tommy , a carpenter by trade , belonged to a man ...
... slave ship bound for Jamaica to be sold.3 This was the case in a nutshell , and because it was unprecedented , Judge Mansfield had to decide if Somerset , as a slave ... trade route , from Liverpool to the west coast of Africa , and then with ...
... slavery , by the 1780s , was bound to ideas of proximity and distance . Before this , Europeans had been able to look with cold remove on the slave trade because of its sheer physical distance from them . The trip from a British slave ...
... trade productive of so many and so great calamities.15 Following Woolman ... slave system beyond their control . In 1791 , the radical abolitionist ... slave trader turned evangelist John Newton actually became a " a Captive and a Slave ...
Debbie Lee. British slave trade that would help convince anyone , from paupers to Members of Parliament , of the ... trade ever since . The peculiar way in which the bodies are imagined in the genre of an architectural drawing and cross ...
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Hazards and Horrors in the Slave Colonies | 45 |
Distant Diseases Yellow Fever in Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 47 |
Intimacy as Imitation Monkeys in Blakes Engravings for Stedmans Narrative | 66 |
Fascination and Fear in Africa | 121 |
African Embraces Voodoo and Possession in Keatss Lamia | 123 |
Mapping Interiors African Cartography Nile Poetry and Percy Bysshe Shelleys The Witch of Atlas | 142 |
Proximitys Monsters Ethnography and AntiSlavery Law in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein | 171 |
Intimate Distance African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworths Poetry and The History of Mary Prince | 194 |
Afterword | 223 |
Notes | 225 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 295 |
Facing Slavery in Britain | 169 |