Germany and the black diaspora: points of contact, 1250-1914

Abstract

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann PART I: SAINTS AND SLAVES, MOORS AND HESSIANS Chapter 1. The Calenberg Altarpiece: Black African Christians in Renaissance Germany Paul Kaplan Chapter 2. The Black Diaspora in Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, with Special Reference to German-Speaking Areas Kate Lowe Chapter 3. Ambiguous Duty: Black Servants at German Ancien Regime Courts Anne Kuhlmann Chapter 4. Real and Imagined Africans in German Court divertissements Rashid-S. Pegah Chapter 5. From American Slaves to Hessian Subjects: Silenced Black Narratives of the American Revolution Maria Diedrich PART II: FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO EMPIRE Chapter 6. The German Reception of African American Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century Heike Paul Chapter 7. On the Brain of the Negro: Race, Abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann's Scientific Discourse on the African Diaspora Jeannette Eileen Jones Chapter 8. Liberating Sojourns? African American Travelers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany Mischa Honeck Chapter 9. Global Proletarians, Uncle Toms and Native Savages: The Antinomies of Black Identity in Nineteenth-Century Germany Bradley Naranch Chapter 10. We Shall Make Farmers of Them Yet: Tuskegee's Uplift Ideology in German Togoland Kendahl Radcliffe Chapter 11. Education and Migration: Cameroonian School Children and Apprentices in the German Metropole, 1884-1914 Robert Aitken Afterword: Africans in Europe: New Perspectives Dirk Hoerder Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index