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... 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 was roughly the same distance , lasting anywhere from forty days at the least , to four months ...
... West- Indies ; struck with horror , we should be zealous to deliver the oppressed , and punish the oppressor . Are then the offices of humanity and functions of justice to be circumscribed by geographical boundaries ? ” 16 Others ...
... West Indies , far from Britain's clean shores , and it is the close proximity of this conventionally foreign and distant picture that gives it the intensity of a central image of the antislavery movement.20 By driving the Liverpool ...
... 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 elements ...
... West Indies , and Mary Russell Mitford celebrated the narrative itself in " Lines , Suggested by the Uncertain Fate of Mungo Park " : " Oh ! When secure in Albion's happy land , / He trac'd his dangers with recording hand . " 55 After ...
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 |