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Montgomery, J. J. Graham und E. Benger. Poems on the abolition of the slave trade. Embellished with engravings from pictures painted by R. Smirke. 7 Bl., II, 141 S. Mit 13 gestochenen Tafeln. 35 x 28 cm. Leder d. Z. (berieben, Rückdeckel lose). London, T. Bensley für R. Bowyer, 1809. Lowndes 1591. Vgl. Thieme-Becker XXXI, 164. – Erste Ausgabe. "James Grahame (sometimes spelled Graham), gives a voice to the furies (representing the planters, merchants and political figures who defended slavery), and agency to Britain in the form of Hercules, who liberated Prometheus in the lost Prometheus unbound of Aeschylus. But to Prometheus - fettered, tortured, and finally delivered - there is granted in Grahame's poem little more than the status of scrutinised object and the capacity to suffer. He may breathe convulsively, moaning and 'imploring death', but he plays no apparent role in his own emancipation, and the focus of the poem shifts speedily and decisively from him to his (British) deliverer, who rends the chain." (Edith Hall in: The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism ). – Fliegende Vorsätze lose, stellenweise braunfleckig bzw. etwas wasserrandig.