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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|97 pages
Tropical Medicine
part |19 pages
A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica (London, 1679)
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)
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)
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 |22 pages
Vol 1
part |51 pages
Vol 2
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)