The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807

by Brycchan Carey

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A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities

How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a "dread perversion" of nature? Focusing on slavery in the Americas, and the Caribbean in particular, alongside travelers' accounts of West Africa, Brycchan Carey...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300224419

ISBN13:9780300224412

Release Date:August 2024

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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