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... Mind Forg'd Manacles in 1994.12 Baum considers the abolitionist movement through major Romantic figures of Blake , Coleridge , Wordsworth , Keats , Shelley , and Byron . But Baum , like earlier critics , offers no theoretical ...
... mind , wrote part of his Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species in the first person , but from the perspective of the Afri- can witnessing a scene of horror equal to that of the Zong . " To place this in the clearest ...
... of soil and climate , of language and manners , of laws and cus- toms : in spite of things gone silently out of mind , and things violently destroyed ; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire 26 Chapter 1.
... Mind : very few have been influenced by a pure desire of the benefit of others . . . . I perceive how far I am from any humble standard of dis- interestedness " ( my emphasis , KL , 2:79 ) . In using the term " disinterestedness ...
... mind and the distanced heart . " The great secret of morals is Love , or going out of our own nature , " says Shelley , with great emotional flourish . This means , in no uncertain terms , " an identification " with a " thought , action ...
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 |