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... story of sugar and rusty nails , he asks readers and listeners of this case to feel for the humanity of slaves . Tommy and the other slaves who speak through these records ask not for a cursory acknowledgment of their humanity but for a ...
... stories that would brand the brutali- ties of slavery on the British consciousness . As with the Somerset case , so it was with the Zong . Letters to the daily and weekly newspapers brought the case be- fore the public . And just as the ...
... stories of ill treatment , he brought in actual iron instruments used on slave ships : handcuffs , leg shackles , thumb- screws , speculums for force - feeding slaves who would rather die . One of the most shocking artifacts of ...
... stories about them - home to Britain , but in different ways from the stories circulating about slaves . The first to do this with any suc- cess was a protege of Joseph Banks , the Scottish explorer Mungo Park . In July of 1794 , Park ...
Debbie Lee. Such intimate encounters riveted a public that had been saturated with stories of Africans as slaves . In Park's estimation , Africans were sometimes fierce , sometimes friendly , most of the time clever , but never ...
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 |