This book enriches our understanding of Romanticism and colonialism by telling the story of Henry Smeathman (1742-86), Natural historian and sentimental traveller whose extraordinary life in West Africa and the West Indies provides us with vivid, eye-witness accounts of Atlantic slavery, the Middle Passage, and the difficulties of collecting in the tropics..
This book enriches our understanding of Romanticism and colonialism by telling the story of Henry Smeathman (1742-86), Natural historian and sentimental traveller whose extraordinary life in West Africa and the West Indies provides us with vivid, eye-witness accounts of Atlantic slavery, the Middle Passage, and the difficulties of collecting in the tropics.