ABSTRACT

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave.

part I|97 pages

Tropical Medicine

part |19 pages

A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica (London, 1679)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part |4 pages

A Discourse of the State of Health In the Island of Jamaica, &c.

part |75 pages

Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates (London, 1768)

part II|86 pages

The Middle Passage: Sailors and Slaves

part |54 pages

An Essay on the Impolicy of the Slave-Trade (London, 1788)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part |37 pages

Part I

chapter |19 pages

Chap. IV.

chapter |19 pages

Chap. V.

part |1 pages

Part II

chapter |14 pages

Chap. I

part |9 pages

‘Examination of James Penny’, House of Commons Sessional Papers (London, 1789) & ‘Extracts of such Journals of the Surgeons employed in the Ships trading to the Coast of Africa’, House of Commons Sessional Papers (London, 1789)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part |20 pages

‘Evidence with respect to carrying Slaves to the West Indies’, Report of the Lords of Trade on the Slave Trade. House of Commons Sessional Papers (London, 1789)

part III|89 pages

West African Medicine and Black Slave Medicine

part |12 pages

‘Parliamentary Inquiry into the Treatment of Slave in the West Indies, and All Circumstances relating thereto, digested under certain Heads Health of Slaves Jamaica’, House of Commons Sessional Papers (London, 1789)

part |75 pages

An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; To Which is added, An Account of the Present State of Medicine Among them, vols 1 & 2 (London, 1803)

part IV|41 pages

Plantation Medicine and Slave Medical Manuals

part |16 pages

An Essay on the More Common West Indian Diseases, and the Remedies which that Country Itself Produces. To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of Negroes (London, 1764)

part |23 pages

‘Of the Sick’, Practical Rules for the Management and Medical Treatment of Negro Slaves in the Sugar Colonies (London, 1803)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |21 pages

Part the Second.