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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... wrote , " Every person in England , and every person in a civilized state , has a claim to the protection of its laws , as he is subject to them .... No degree of slavery can subsist in a free state ; all man- kind are created free ...
... wrote , " The narrative seemed to make every one present shudder . " 10 It was this event , ac- cording to veteran historian James Walvin , that instigated the full unleashing of antislavery sentiment in Britain . Not only was it behind ...
... wrote , " for an honest man to think that with a view to self - interest we may continue slavery to the off- spring of these unhappy sufferers . . . and not have a share of this guilt " ( my emphasis ) .1 Psychological proximity ...
... wrote up his travels , but his shipmates Georg Forster and John Hawkesworth came out with their own versions . These were followed by other South Seas travelogues , such as George Keate's 1788 Account of the Pelew Islands . In North ...
... wrote " it would be absurd to attempt a particular description of what I saw there ... his house is a perfect museum ; every room contains an inestimable treasure . " In one room , Banks had " warlike instruments , mechanical ...
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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 |