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... plantation . Fraser used Tommy to repair sugar casks . On the day in ques- tion , Tommy had gone to the boiling house to fetch some nails for his day's work , where he met another slave who was " heading up sugars . " Tommy and the ...
... plantation owners considered an insidious form of resistance . Fraser then proceeded to have Tommy tied to the ground and flogged one hundred times , sixty - one more than the legal limit . In his complaint , Tommy did not deny taking ...
... at a safe distance from plantations , they were not responsible for what took place there . So Woolman found himself writing things like , " Great distance makes nothing in our British Slavery and African Exploration 13.
... plantations spread from Brazil to the Caribbean . Sugar cultivation could only be profitable if outfitted by cheap labor in the form of slaves . And so during the middle 1640s , the Portuguese who had controlled A the transatlantic ...
... plantation slavery turned people into chattels , and this led to the interpretation in Western culture of slavery as the polar opposite of freedom . Transatlantic slavery gave European culture its definition of freedom because in a very ...
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 |