Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons

Préface
Employs Wedderburn's stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to boldly reassess Romantic-era writing across multiple genres.

Auteur
Katey Castellano is Professor of English at James Madison University and author of The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism (2013).

Résumé
Centring Black experience and bringing together scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this study follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, using his stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to launch innovative readings of Romantic-era abolition, landscape, and revolution.

Contenu
Introduction: Robert Wedderburn, romanticism, and black geographies; 1. Against private property: Wedderburn's the axe laid to the root; 2. From plantation to prison: Wedderburn's the horrors of slavery and London's radical press; 3. Black women's abolitionist geographies in the horrors of slavery and the history of Mary prince; 4. Provisions and pigs: black geographies in Matthew Lewis's journal of a west India proprietor; 5. Maroon settlements as abolitionist commons: nanny of the maroons, R. C. Dallas's history of the maroons, and J. G. Stedman's narrative of a five years' expedition; 6. Emancipation as the enclosure of 'waste fertility': Thomas Carlyle's rage against pumpkins; Conclusion / Wedderburn's last word: abolition with pigs, pumpkins, and yams; Notes; Bibliography; Index.