Humphry Davy, transatlantic slavery and his constructions of racial difference in an early notebook

• Published in: Notes and records of the Royal Society of London Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 597 - 624
• Main Author: Bird, Eleanor Lucy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 30.10.2024

Humphry Davy was the most celebrated chemist of his day in Britain, but he has been absent from discussions of Romantic-era constructions of race. It is well known that Davy was an experimental chemist, popular lecturer, and, as has been recently explored by the Davy Notebooks Project, a poet; this...