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

• 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.

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

• 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.