List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Uncommon Sufferings: Rethinking Bondage in Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man,—Servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New-England
I. Bound in Slavery
2. Imprisoned Slaves, Genteel Slaveholders, and Virtuous Prisoners: Slave Incarceration in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
3. Mild Masters, Sympathetic Abolitionists, and Courageous Husbands: Cherokee Slavery in The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
II. Bound in Freedom
4. Bound Children, Benevolent Caretakers, and Disabling Service: Indentured Servitude in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig
5. Savage Moors, African Companies, and Mulatto Explorers: North African Captivity in The Narrative of Robert Adams
Epilogue: Imprisonment and Domestic Captivity in
The Color Purple
Notes
Works Cited
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