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... earliest book - length studies appeared in 1942 : Eva Beatrice Dykes's The Negro in English Romantic Thought and Wylie Sypher's Guinea's Captive Kings . 1 1 Both of these works comprehensively cite example after example of slavery in ...
... early- nineteenth - century white middle - class Britons with all we now know about the effects of this history ? How can we do anything but submit to a rhetoric of blame or , at the very least , a cautious examination of the possible ...
... Early abolitionists emphasized exactly this point . One of the first , the American Quaker John Woolman , whose essay Some Considerations on the Keep- ing of Negroes appeared in 1746 , traveled around America as an itinerant minister ...
... early years of the slave trade is how rapidly it expanded from a minor commerce to a full - blown economic enterprise . If one wanted to attach an actual date to the beginnings of the trade it would be 1518 , when Charles V of Spain ...
... early nineteenth century , the African slave trade represented the largest migration of people in human history to that point.29 Millions of people were torn from their homeland and deposited on foreign shores . Just how many millions ...
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 |