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... sugar for the purpose of sweetening three gallons of water " for his personal use . He put the sugar in his apron , along with some rusty nails . While employed repairing sugar casks , Tommy explained to the fiscal , he was in the habit ...
... sugar and rusty nails . If anything , he adamantly affirmed his " theft . " What he objected to was the flog- ging . Yet when the fiscal asked Tommy to expose his back and posterior to the court , Tommy's body showed only a few faded ...
... sugar 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 ...
... sugar . In the 1780s , the transatlantic trade reached its peak , with the British lead- ing the way and , ironically enough , it was at this exact moment that the British also began to dominate abolition efforts . One of the landmark ...
... sugar — the vast majority knew about Africans and slaves only through written accounts . From the 1780s onward , the British presses issued millions of pages in the form of parliamentary debates and newspaper columns , sermons and ...
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 |