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... James Reiger ( New York : Bobbs - Merrill , 1974 ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1982 ) . William Wordsworth , The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth , ed . E. de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire , 5 vols . ( Oxford ...
... James Somerset- was an effort to keep slavery physically distant . In 1771 , nearly half a century before Tommy's complaint , the slave James Somerset was ordered to appear be- fore Judge Mansfield at the Court of King's Bench in 10 ...
... James Walvin and F. O. Shyllon explain , was intensely interested in upholding the property basis of British slavery , and he was not , by any means , proclaiming that all slaves were free in Britain . What Mansfield actually declared ...
... - cording to veteran historian James Walvin , that instigated the full unleashing of antislavery sentiment in Britain . Not only was it behind the abolitionist move- ment , it was a startling instance of the kind 12 Chapter 1.
... and beyond that , for colonial exploitation . Following the three celebrated journeys of Captain James Cook , executed between 1768 and 1779 , Britain initiated thousands more voyages British Slavery and African Exploration 19.
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 |