…holds up and contemplates presumably before the moment of the first bite. In Duval-Cariée’s engraving number eleven, “Makandal S’envoie,” the healer has transformed himself into a mosquito and into flight…

…plantation operations and saving imperial wealth; Denis Diderot’s engravings of happy cultivators and tools for processing raw cotton and sugar featured numbered black bodies and machine parts as one harmonious…

…Été Publiées. A Londres ; et se trouve à Paris: chez J. F. Bastien, 1788. Burwick, Frederic and Manushag N. Powell. British Pirates in Print and Performance. New York: St….

…growing number of similarly embedded slave narratives, extracted from texts written by European colonial authors, which we have remixed to form a new digital anthology of narratives that speak to…

…crown that the indigenous were suffering greatly at the hands of the Spanish. Thus, a council was formed and a number of laws governing Spanish action in the New World…

…suggest that Stedman’s views were humanitarian (his work was cited by many abolitionist groups) there are a number of inconsistencies between this text and his diaries, which seem to suggest…

…easily identifiable, she conducted research at the Howard Library at the now Tulane University in New Orleans, according to Edward Tinker. Marie Augustin was an educator in New Orleans where…

…score by William Ware) was first performed at the New Royal Circus Theater, St. George’s Fields, London, in September of 1801, and this booklet is its first and only printing…

…most suitable details to make known the state of this colony at the time of October 18, 1789; and a new map of the whole island. “A small, almost imperceptible…

Makandal and West African Knowledge Origins – Who is Makandal? There are any number of spellings of his name in use across the texts, including Macandal, Macandale, Mackendal, Makandale, and…