William Blake and Slavery: Mind-Forg'd Manacles

by David Bindman and Darryl Pinckney

The English poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827) was uncommonly aware of the evils of slavery in his time, having illustrated Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1791), John Stedman's firsthand account of the brutal suppression of a slave revolt in South America. But for Blake, the interest was not only in physical but mental enslavement. The ubiquity of "mind-forg'd manacles" (as he put it in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853322598
• ISBN13: 9781853322594
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.4"