Slavery and the Romantic ImaginationUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. szept. 14. - 312 oldal Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title |
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... British consciousness in a personal way . The truth was that slavery , by ... West Africa ran anywhere from four thousand to six thousand miles and could take months.12 The middle passage from Africa to the West Indies ... West Indies would ...
... British abolitionists considered it standard practice to challenge the idea ... West- Indies ; struck with horror , we should be zealous to deliver the ... British mind , wrote part of his Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human ...
... British people must have made them startling to viewers at this time . This British ship - the Brookes — was originally filled with slaves in Africa and emptied of them in the West Indies , far from Britain's clean shores , and it is ...
... Indian customs , as found in William Bartram's 1791 Travels through North and South Carolina , Geor- gia , East and West Florida , The Cherokee Country ... together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians ... British and the French .
... British West Indies as ghostwriter . Edwards made sure Park's narrative was " interesting and entertaining , " and then he had Banks " cast [ his ] eye " over each chapter for final approval.49 The narrative certainly has dramatic ...
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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 |