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... line of thinking was initiated by Eric Wil- liams , an Oxford historian who went on to become prime minister of postcolo- nial Trinidad and Tobago , in his 1944 Capitalism and Slavery.45 With originality and striking persuasion ...
... 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 Park , poets portrayed Africa as a place through which the hidden depths of ...
... lines like " the slave grinding at the mill / And the captive in chains , " from The Four Zoas.2 Likewise , Mary Wollstonecraft frequently designates women as " slaves " in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( 1792 ) . Men , she ...
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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 |