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 |22 pages
‘Negroes’, History of Jamaica, 3 vols (London, 1774)
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)
part |4 pages
‘Summary of Politics’, Cobbett’s Political Register (June 12, 1802)
part |40 pages
‘Of the causes which have produced the diversities of the human species’, Researches into the Physical History of Man (London, 1813)
part |32 pages
Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Mankind delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons (London, 1819)
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)