The latest work in eighteenth-century studies.
Showcasing exciting new research across disciplines, Volume 52 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores how history''s dominant narratives have been challenged and reframed.
Anne Lafont shows how early writings about Black art questioned the cultural negation of enslaved peoples'' humanity. A cluster of essays on "Decolonizing Eighteenth-Century Studies" connects the current conditions under which we produce scholarship to the forms of exploitation that defined the eighteenth century. Erica Johnson Edwards chronicles how self-liberated people in colonial Haiti resisted their recapture by using advertisements for unclaimed runaways, while Allison Cardon argues that Ottobah Cugoano''s critiques of abolitionist discourse were more radical than we have recognized. Another cluster recenters Native epistemologies in the interactions between Indigenous Peoples and settlers in the American South.
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