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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... turned the actions of the British , not of the slaves , into a crime . British guilt rested in the crime of excessive flogging , but also in the crime of withholding from slaves the products of their labor . British plan- tation owners ...
... turned evangelist John Newton actually became a " a Captive and a Slave myself " among the " Natives of Africa . " 7 Similarly , Thomas Clarkson , in an effort to bring the subject of slavery closer to the British mind , wrote part of ...
... turned people into chattels , and this led to the interpretation in Western culture of slavery as the polar opposite of freedom . Transatlantic slavery gave European culture its definition of freedom because in a very real sense ...
... turned to a lust of conquest . In 1792 , Banks said that colonizing Africa " did not in my opinion coincide with the purpose of the association , " but just seven years later , in 1799 , he recom- mended " secur ( ing ] to the British ...
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The Distanced Imagination | 29 |
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 |
Facing Slavery in Britain | 169 |