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contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Political and Cultural Exchange in the British Atlantic 1 part one. Slave-Trade Abolition: Pageantry, Parody, and the Goddess of Liberty (1790s–1820s) 13 1 Celebrating Columbia, Mother of the White Republic 17 2 Abolitionist Britannia and the Blackface Supplicant Slave 52 3 Spreading Liberty to Africa 87 part two. Emancipation and Political Reform: Burlesque, Picaresque, and the Great Experiment (1820s–1830s) 115 4 Black Freedom and Blackface Picaresque: Life in London, Life in Philadelphia 119 5 Transatlantic Travelers, Slavery, and Charles Mathews’s “Black Fun” 152 part three. Radical Abolitionism, Revolt, and Revolution: Spartacus and the Blackface Minstrel (1830s–1850s) 177 6 Spartacus, Jim Crow, and the Black Jokes of Revolt 181 7 Revolutionary Brotherhood: Black Spartacus, Black Hercules, and the Wage Slave 213 Conclusion: Uncle Tom, the Eighteenth-Century Revolutionary Legacy, and Historical Memory 245 Notes 257 Essay on Sources 297 Index 303 This page intentionally left blank ...

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