Black Cosmopolitanism : Racial Consciousness And Transnational Identity In The Nineteenth-Century Americas

Introduction 1(22) Part One: The Making of a Race (Man) 23(58) 1 The View from Above: Placido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists 29(19) 2 The View from Next Door: Placido Through Black Abolitionists' Eyes 48(33) Part Two: Both (Race) and (Nation)? 81(72) 3 On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Plácido 87(27) 4 "We Intend to Stay Here": The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass's Representations of African American Community 114(15) 5 "More a Haitian Than an American": Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States 129(24) Part Three: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race 153(52) 6 A Slave's Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity 157(30) 7 Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness 187(18) Conclusion 205(6) Notes 211(46) Bibliography 257(20) Index 277(12) Acknowledgments 289