Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One BUILDING THE ARCHIVE -- 1 "The Cord that bindes up all": Richard Ligon and the Natural History of Barbados -- 2 "A very perverse Generation of People": Natural History i...

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1. Verfasser:	Carey, Brycchan 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Haven Yale University Press 2024
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1650-1807 Naturgeschichte > Fach Sklavenhandel Englisch Abolitionismus Literatur
Online-Zugang:	http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780300280241
Zusammenfassung:	Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One BUILDING THE ARCHIVE -- 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 -- Part Two DEPLOYING THE ARCHIVE -- 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" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (279 Seiten)
ISBN:	9780300280241 9780300224412