Introduction: Framing the Stage: Structures of Race, Imperial Oppression, and Performances of Blackness, 1770-1850 Part 1: Slavery, Revolt, and Abolitionism 1. Slavery, Abolition, and Civic Education in French Boulevard Theater during the French Revolution 2. The Legitimacy of Resistance in Dutch Abolitionist Theater 3. The Politics of Truth-Telling: Black Resistance and the Transatlantic World in Nesselrode's Drama Adaptation of the Zimeo-Plot Zamor und Zoraide, 1778 4. "Our Turn Next": Slavery and Freedom on French and American Stages, 1789-1799 Part 2: Race, Nation, and Empire 5. Staging Slavery "at Home": Race and Homosocial Economies in Ernst Lorenz Rathlef's Die Mohrinn zu Hamburg, 1775 6. Performing The Revenge in Sydney: Blackface and Blackness in an Abolitionist Empire 7. The Representation of Stage "Blackness" in Theodor Koerner's Toni, 1812 8. "O pity the Black Man, he is Slave in Foreign Country": Danish Performances of Colonialism and Slavery, 1793-1848 Part 3: Black Agency, Performance, and Counter-Theater 9. Slavery as Part of the Scene: The Presence of Black and Mestizo Actors and Actresses at the Late Eighteenth-Century Vila Rica Opera House 10. Counter-Voices in the Tropics: Theater and Vernacular Performance in Rio de Janeiro 11. Protesting Slavery, Asserting Freedom, and Defying Racism: The African Grove Theatre in New York, 1821-1824 12. Epilogue: Staging Slavery, Re-Centering, and Re-Spotlighting Blackened People
