William Blake and Slavery: Mind-Forg'd Manacles
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The English poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827) was uncommonly aware of the evils of slavery in his time, having illustrated Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1791), John Stedman's firsthand account of the brutal suppression of a slave revolt in South America. But for Blake, the interest was not only in physical but mental enslavement. The ubiquity of "mind-forg'd manacles" (as he put it in...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1853322598
ISBN13:9781853322594
Release Date:July 2007
Publisher:Hayward Gallery Publishing
Length:148 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.5" x 8.4"
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