The unnatural trade slavery, abolition, and environmental writing, 1650-1807
1. "The cord that bindes up all" : Richard Ligon and the natural history of Barbados -- 2. "A very perverse generation of people" : natural history in the service of the planters -- 3. "Negroes, cattle, mules, and horses" : the plantation in theory and in practice -- 4....
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New Haven ; London
Yale University Press
2024
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 1. "The cord that bindes up all" : Richard Ligon and the natural history of Barbados -- 2. "A very perverse generation of people" : natural history in the service of the planters -- 3. "Negroes, cattle, mules, and horses" : the plantation in theory and in practice -- 4. "The purchase of slaves, teeth and dust" : natural histories of the African slave trade -- 5. "The groans, the dying groans, of this deeply afflicted and oppressed people" : Anthony Benezet and the natural history of Atlantic slavery -- 6. "An unnatural state of oppression" : environmental writing in the abolitionist essay -- 7. "But say, whence first th'unnatural trade arose? " abolitionism's environmental poetics -- Conclusion : "An inexhaustible mine of wealth. |
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| Beschreibung: | ix, 268 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780300224412 978-0-300-22441-2 |