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Author Bohls, Elizabeth A., author.

Title Slavery and the politics of place : representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1833 / Elizabeth A. Bohls.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 108
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 108.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-256) and index.
Contents Introduction: Captive spaces -- 1. The planter picturesque -- 2. Stedman's tropics: The mercenary as naturalist -- 3. Colonial history and Atlantic geography -- 4. Equiano's politics of place: From roots to routes -- 5. At home with the "blackies": Janet Schaw and Maria Nugent -- 6. A long way from home: Slavery, travel, and imperial geography in The History of Mary Prince -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary Analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Slavery.
Caribbean Area.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
History.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Bohls, Elizabeth A. Slavery and the politics of place. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2014 1107079349 (OCoLC)881655598
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