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Slavery and the Politics of Place - Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1833 (Paperback)
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Slavery and the Politics of Place - Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1833 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over
slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the
sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles -
as fully imagined places and the basis for a pro- or anti-slavery
political agenda. With the help of twenty-first-century theories of
space and place, Elizabeth A. Bohls examines the writings of
planters, slaves, soldiers, sailors, and travellers whose diverse
geographical and social locations inflect their representations of
slavery. She shows how these writers use discourses of aesthetics,
natural history, cultural geography, and gendered domesticity to
engage with the slavery debate. Six interlinked case studies,
including Scottish mercenary John Stedman and domestic slave Mary
Prince, examine the power of these discourses to represent the
places of slavery, setting slaves' narratives in dialogue with
pro-slavery texts, and highlighting in the latter previously
unnoticed traces of the enslaved.
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