The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1660–1807

2025/07/03 by Chris Townsend · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #American Environmental and Regional History #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/0144039x.2025.2532926

openalex publication_date 2025/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/13

Abstract

True to its title, The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing concerns the entanglement and parallel development of the discourses of environmentalism and abolitionism in th...

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• "A forcefully argued, carefully constructed account of naturalism lending fuel to abolitionism." My thanks to Chris Townend for this very generous review of my book The Unnatural Trade in Slavery and [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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