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... woman " returning from the labours in the fields " comes upon him . The woman , says Park , " stopped to observe me , and perceiving that I was weary and dejected , inquired into my situation , which I briefly explained to her ...
... Woman ( 1792 ) . Men , she writes , " will endeavour to enslave woman : -and who can tell , how many generations may be neces- sary to give vigour to the virtue and talents of the freed posterity of abject slaves ? " Both Byron and ...
... Woman's Lamentation speaks of another method of suicide : during the middle passage , many Africans , " sick and sad , " died refusing to eat the " Nau- seous horse - beans " otherwise forced down their throats . Mary Robinson's " The ...
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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 |