Abstract

PT. 1. THE MAKING OF A RACE (MAN) 1. The view from above: Placido through the eyes of the Cuban colonial government and white abolitionists 2. The view from next door: Placido through black abolitionists' eyes PT. 2. BOTH (RACE) AND (NATION)? 3. On being black and Cuban: race, nation, and romanticism in the poetry of Placido 4. We intend to stay here: the international shadows in Frederick Douglass's representations of African American community 5. More a Haitian than an American: Frederick Douglass and the black world beyond the United States PT. 3. NEGATING NATION, REJECTING RACE 6. A slave's cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, and the geography of identity 7. Disidentification as identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the flight from blackness

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