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2 “A very perverse Generation of People”: Natural History in the Service of the Planters
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
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Part One BUILDING THE ARCHIVE
- 1 “The Cord that bindes up all”: Richard Ligon and the Natural History of Barbados 21
- 2 “A very perverse Generation of People”: Natural History in the Service of the Planters 50
- 3 “Negroes, cattle, mules, and horses”: The Plantation in Theory and in Practice 74
- 4 “The purchase of slaves, teeth and dust”: Natural Histories of the African Slave Trade 105
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Part Two DEPLOYING THE ARCHIVE
- 5 “The groans, the dying groans, of this deeply afflicted and oppressed people”: Anthony Benezet and the Natural History of Atlantic Slavery 139
- 6 “An unnatural state of oppression”: Environmental Writing in the Abolitionist Essay 156
- 7 “But say, whence first th’unnatural trade arose?” Abolitionism’s Environmental Poetics 180
- Conclusion: “An inexhaustible mine of wealth” 212
- Notes 225
- Bibliography 237
- Index 253
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part One BUILDING THE ARCHIVE
- 1 “The Cord that bindes up all”: Richard Ligon and the Natural History of Barbados 21
- 2 “A very perverse Generation of People”: Natural History in the Service of the Planters 50
- 3 “Negroes, cattle, mules, and horses”: The Plantation in Theory and in Practice 74
- 4 “The purchase of slaves, teeth and dust”: Natural Histories of the African Slave Trade 105
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Part Two DEPLOYING THE ARCHIVE
- 5 “The groans, the dying groans, of this deeply afflicted and oppressed people”: Anthony Benezet and the Natural History of Atlantic Slavery 139
- 6 “An unnatural state of oppression”: Environmental Writing in the Abolitionist Essay 156
- 7 “But say, whence first th’unnatural trade arose?” Abolitionism’s Environmental Poetics 180
- Conclusion: “An inexhaustible mine of wealth” 212
- Notes 225
- Bibliography 237
- Index 253