…the immediacy of the historical moment by a number of years (1764 printing…) as well as being removed by several narrative perspectives (a published letter about a letter written a…
Makandal Exhibit: Introduction
…identified or characterized as any number of things: a poisoner, a healer or physician, a maroon, and a Vodou priest; this exhibit traces his transformation over time and geography from…
King Caesar or The Negro Slave by John Cartwright Cross
…by a Negro in the Island of St. Domingo,” 2016. CUNY Grad Center. Just Teach One. Greene, John C. Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances. Lanham: Rowman &…
Further Reading and Related Projects
…pp. 1-20. Related Projects Just Teach One Duncan Faherty (Queens College & CUNY Graduate Center) and Ed White (Tulane University) Just Teach One is a digital project producing digital editions…
Makandal and West African Knowledge
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…
Representations of Indigenous People: Carib Customs
…effects of having been under French servitude for a number of years. Davidson’s letter also describes the polygamous marriage practices, religious observations, cassava cultivation methods and other Carib customs. A…
Carnival and Mass
…edited by Tim Barringer and Gillian Forrester and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, (2019). https://www-aaeportal-com.ezproxy.neu.edu/?id=-18629. Images Cited: Crowley, Daniel J. “The Traditional Masques of Carnival.”…
Carnival and Song
…have looked at during this time. Citation: Hans Sloane, A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, . . . and islands of America. (London, 1707), vol. 1, pp. l-li….
Key Text: Bug-Jargal by Victor Hugo
…reach of Haiti, as the ongoing center of Euro-colonial faiture,” and at once, brings readers to “a point of departure for a deeper and longer French-Creole-Spanish presence in trans-American literary…
A Guide to the Exhibit:
…sources are not written or drawn by the same author or from the same island, the sources all relate to the broad idea of opposition, diaspora, rebellion, power dynamic, and…