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... slaves , which were then published by Parliament and distributed throughout Britain . These records are unique . For in the midst of a turbulent controversy on slavery by virtually all classes of British citizens , the voices of slaves ...
... slavery as they had done for nearly three hundred years . But how did this brutally distant attitude occur in the first place ? Part of it stemmed from slavery's geography . From the perspective of the average Briton , slavery had ...
... slavery , and he was not , by any means , proclaiming that all slaves were free in Britain . What Mansfield actually declared was this slippery justification for not deporting Somerset : The state of slavery is of such a nature , that ...
... slavery and law had become . Although antislavery advo- cates were horrified , the case was subsumed under British insurance law , and the insurance company refused to pay slave owners anything . Apparently , death from " natural causes ...
... slavery would be contained in the faraway colonies , while the Zong affair , which took place faraway in the middle passage , brought slavery terrifyingly close to home in the sense that it entered the British consciousness in a ...
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 |