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 |22 pages

‘Negroes’, History of Jamaica, 3 vols (London, 1774)

chapter |20 pages

[351] The Third Book

part |18 pages

Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World, on Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethic Philosophy (London, 1778)

part |26 pages

‘Preliminary Discourse, concerning the Origin of Men and Languages’, Sketches of the History of Man (London and Edinburgh, 1774)

part |29 pages

An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion in the Human Species to which are added Strictures on Lord Kaims’s Discourse on the Original Diversity of Mankind (London, 1789)

part |21 pages

The Works of the Late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the Science of Anatomy and the Arts of Drawing, Painting, Statuary, &c. &c., (London, 1794)

part |22 pages

‘On the Origin and Families of Nations’, Discourses delivered before the Asiatic Society … By Sir William Jones (London, 1821)

part |73 pages

On the Natural Variety of Mankind, in The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (London, 1865)

part |50 pages

An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man, and in Different Animals and Vegetables; and from the Former to the Latter. Illustrated with engravings adapted to the subject. By Charles White. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester at different meetings, in the year 1795 (London, 1799)

chapter |48 pages

Part Second

part |4 pages

‘Summary of Politics’, Cobbett’s Political Register (June 12, 1802)

chapter |2 pages

Summary of Politics

part |40 pages

‘Of the causes which have produced the diversities of the human species’, Researches into the Physical History of Man (London, 1813)

chapter |28 pages

Section III

chapter |7 pages

Section IV

chapter |3 pages

Section V

part |32 pages

Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Mankind delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons (London, 1819)

chapter Section II|30 pages

On the Varieties of the Human Species

part |11 pages

Cuvier’s Animal Kingdom, arranged according to its organization; forming the basis for a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Mammalia, birds, and reptiles by Edward Blyth. The fishes and radiata, by Robert Mudie. The molluscous animals, by George Johnston … The articulated animals, by J. O. Westwood (London, 1840)

chapter |9 pages

The First Order of Mammalians