Title: Shades of green : visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860 /
Authors: Finseth, Ian Frederick.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: American literature History and criticism; European literature History and criticism.; Slavery in literature; Nature in literature.; Antislavery movements in literature.; American literature European influences; Slavery Philosophy.; Philosophy of nature.
Contents: Nature, civilization, and the progress of antislavery philosophy -- Natural science in early antislavery thought -- Natural aesthetics in early antislavery literature -- Narrative, temporality, and the international traveler -- Crèvecoeur's natural contract -- Olaudah Equiano and the paradox of history -- Natural evil and human development -- The problem of theodicy -- Antebellum natural science -- The natural law of free development -- Nations of blood -- The separatist impulse, from David Walker to Martin Delany -- Of men and mollusks : Emerson's providential biology -- Race in the landscape -- Pastoral, race, and the visual imagination -- Toward an African American georgic -- Coda : antislavery pictorialism -- Revisiting, reliving, reforming -- The geography of the slave narrative -- From the garden to the swamp : Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Oxen and sweet potatoes : Douglass on the land -- Epilogue: shadows of green.