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... British writers had to the growing empire . These responses seem to fall into one of the following categories ... British anxiety in response to colonization , it was Nigel Leask who popularized the idea in his 1992 book British Romantic ...
... British Romantic imagination . Because slavery was such an intimate part of the imagination , writers produced works so distinct that an entire literary period formed around them . In the broadest sense , this book asks : what is the ...
... British government began pressuring colonial legislatures in the Caribbean to be more accountable for their African ... British citizens , the voices of slaves were now to be found within official government discourse . Though the words ...
... 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 could only make this kind ...
... British slavery , and he was not , by any means , proclaiming that all slaves were free in Britain . What Mansfield actually declared was this slippery justification for not deporting Somerset : The state of slavery is of such a nature ...
Contents
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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 |