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Maxine Krenzel April 11, 2106 Paper Proposal: Revolution and the World My final term paper will take up some of the questions around captivity, fantasy, and identity that I left unanswered at the conclusion of my archival presentation on The Captivity of Mrs. Johnson. I ended my presentation by focusing on the ambiguity surrounding […]
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Duncan Faherty Associate Professor Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center “The Sick Who Were Deemed Incurable”: Botanical Knowledge, Slave Insurrection, and the “Story of Makandal” Like many other late eighteenth century representations of Caribbean maroons, the anonymously published “Story of Makandal” represents its titular protagonist as being “well acquainted” with the “the […]