Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction: Nature, Race, Culture | p. 1 |
Nature, Civilization, and the Progress of Antislavery Philosophy | p. 29 |
Natural Science in Early Antislavery Thought | p. 33 |
Natural Aesthetics in Early Antislavery Literature | p. 50 |
Narrative, Temporality, and the International Traveler | p. 74 |
Crevecoeur's Natural Contract | p. 78 |
Olaudah Equiano and the Paradox of History | p. 97 |
Natural Evil and Human Development | p. 118 |
The Problem of Theodicy | p. 120 |
Antebellum Natural Science | p. 133 |
The Natural Law of Free Development | p. 144 |
Nations of Blood | p. 162 |
The Separatist Impulse, from David Walker to Martin Delany | p. 165 |
Of Men and Mollusks: Emerson's Providential Biology | p. 187 |
Race in the Landscape | p. 207 |
Pastoral, Race, and the Visual Imagination | p. 210 |
Toward an African American Georgic | p. 229 |
Coda: Antislavery Pictorialism | p. 245 |
Revisiting, Reliving, Reforming | p. 250 |
The Geography of the Slave Narrative | p. 253 |
From the Garden to the Swamp: Harriet Beecher Stowe | p. 261 |
Oxen and Sweet Potatoes: Douglass on the Land | p. 271 |
Epilogue: Shadows of Green | p. 292 |
Notes | p. 299 |
Index | p. 341 |
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