"Centring Black experience and bringing together scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this study follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, using his stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to launch innovative readings of Romantic-era abolition, landscape, and revolution"--
"Centring Black experience and bringing together scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this study follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, using his stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to launch innovative readings of Romantic-era abolition, landscape, and revolution"--
Katey Castellano is Professor of English at James Madison University and author of The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism (2013).
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Introduction: Robert Wedderburn, romanticism, and black geographies 1. Against private property: Wedderburn's the axe laid to the root 2. From plantation to prison: Wedderburn's the horrors of slavery and London's radical press 3. Black women's abolitionist geographies in the horrors of slavery and the history of Mary prince 4. Provisions and pigs: black geographies in Matthew Lewis's journal of a west India proprietor 5. Maroon settlements as abolitionist commons: nanny of the maroons, R. C. Dallas's history of the maroons, and J. G. Stedman's narrative of a five years' expedition 6. Emancipation as the enclosure of 'waste fertility': Thomas Carlyle's rage against pumpkins Conclusion / Wedderburn's last word: abolition with pigs, pumpkins, and yams Notes Bibliography Index.
Introduction: Robert Wedderburn, romanticism, and black geographies 1. Against private property: Wedderburn's the axe laid to the root 2. From plantation to prison: Wedderburn's the horrors of slavery and London's radical press 3. Black women's abolitionist geographies in the horrors of slavery and the history of Mary prince 4. Provisions and pigs: black geographies in Matthew Lewis's journal of a west India proprietor 5. Maroon settlements as abolitionist commons: nanny of the maroons, R. C. Dallas's history of the maroons, and J. G. Stedman's narrative of a five years' expedition 6. Emancipation as the enclosure of 'waste fertility': Thomas Carlyle's rage against pumpkins Conclusion / Wedderburn's last word: abolition with pigs, pumpkins, and yams Notes Bibliography Index.
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