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... Jamaica to be sold.3 This was the case in a nutshell , and because it was unprecedented , Judge Mansfield had to decide if Somerset , as a slave of Stewart while they had both been in America , could be forced to return to one of ...
... Jamaica . The Jamaica rebellion , in particular , was just what was needed to prompt Parliament to pass the emancipation bill . Samuel Sharpe , a feisty figure who has achieved heroic status , was the leader of the rebellion where 200 ...
... Jamaica ( 1790 J to the celebrated gothic writer Matthew Gregory Lewis , with his Journal of a West India Proprietor , published in 1834 , after his death from yellow fever.36 As this worldwide exploration and description went on in ...
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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 |