The presentation proposes to examine the invention (or reconfiguration) of Enlightenment humanism in the nineteenth century through the triangulation among Europe, Asia and America. The paper will look at the works of a number of nineteenth-century transatlantic Romantic writers, such as William Wordsworth’s sonnet “The Banished Negroes” (1802) and “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement” (1809), Emily Dickinson’s “Civilization – spurns – the Leopard!” (1862) and “Color – Caste – Denomination –” (1864), and Helen Hunt Jackson’s “The Story of Boon” (1875) and Ramona (1884), rethinking the Romantic conceptualization of the human as a liberal subject and its translation, transmission, and transformation embedded in the racialized comparative paradigm across the transatlantic and transpacific literary world. Building on what Lisa Lowe calls “the intimacies of four continents” (2015), the paper explores the interconnectedness among a number of momentous geo-political conflicts, such as the French Revolution, the Sino-Anglo Opium War, the Mexico-American War, the American Civil War, and the Russo-Circassian War, and see how those poems encapsulate the enmeshed relationships among trades, peoples, and ideas, between racialized politics and the Romantic ideas about liberty, democracy and civilization. By looking at the representation of humanity in relation to the geo-political emergencies of the time, the essay intends to show how the notion of liberal humanism in Romantic writing continues to be challenged, subverted or expanded, and reconstructed.