Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 7

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.

Alan Bewell,

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Note on copy texts -- Part I: Tropical Medicine -- Thomas Trapham, Jr, A Discourse o f the State o f Health in the Island o f Jam aica (1679) -- James Lind, Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates (1768) -- Part II: The Middle Passage: Sailors and Slaves -- Thomas Clarkson, An Essay on the Impolicy o f the Slave-Trade (1788) -- Examination of James Penny (1788) -- Extracts of such Journals of the Surgeons employed in Ships trading to the Coast of Africa (1789) -- Evidence with respect to carrying Slaves to the West Indies (1789) -- Part III: West African Medicine and Black Slave -- Medicine Parliamentary Inquiry into the Treatment of Slaves in the West Indies - Jamaica (1789) -- Thomas M. Winterbottom, Account o f the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood o f Sierra Leone (1803) -- Part IV: Plantation Medicine and Slave Medical Manuals -- James Grainger, An Essay on the More Common West Indian Diseases (1764) -- [David Collins], Practical Rules for the Management and Medical Treatment o f Negro Slaves (1803) -- Notes.