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Preface: "Suppose Nat Turner painted?"
Introduction. "Their names colonized off": remembering and reimagining black heroism
"I shed my blood": Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination
"N.T. 11 11 31": Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics
"No right to be a hero": Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing
"Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky": re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring sojourner truth
"A work of art": Frederick Douglass's "living parchments" and "chattel records"
"I've seen de real ting": Harriet Tubman, performance, and multiple personae
Conclusion. "Portals, containers, time capsules, and bridges": acts and arts of black heroism in textual and visual archives.
Introduction. "Their names colonized off": remembering and reimagining black heroism
"I shed my blood": Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination
"N.T. 11 11 31": Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics
"No right to be a hero": Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing
"Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky": re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring sojourner truth
"A work of art": Frederick Douglass's "living parchments" and "chattel records"
"I've seen de real ting": Harriet Tubman, performance, and multiple personae
Conclusion. "Portals, containers, time capsules, and bridges": acts and arts of black heroism in textual and visual archives.