The unnatural trade : slavery, abolition, and environmental writing, 1650-1807 / Brycchan Carey.

Author/creator Carey, Brycchan, 1967- author.
Format Book
PublicationNew Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]
Copyright Date©2024
Descriptionix, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Partial contents 1. "The cord that bindes up all" : Richard Ligon and the natural history of Barbados -- 2. "A very perverse generation of people" : natural history in the service of the planters -- 3. "Negroes, cattle, mules, and horses" : the plantation in theory and in practice -- 4. "The purchase of slaves, teeth and dust" : natural histories of the African slave trade -- 5. "The groans, the dying groans, of this deeply afflicted and oppressed people" : Anthony Benezet and the natural history of Atlantic slavery -- 6. "An unnatural state of oppression" : environmental writing in the abolitionist essay -- 7. "But say, whence first th'unnatural trade arose? " abolitionism's environmental poetics -- Conclusion : "An inexhaustible mine of wealth."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Carey, Brycchan, 1967- Unnatural trade 9780300280241
ISBN9780300224412
ISBN0300224419 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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