Slave Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination

This volume examines representations of slave heroism in the African American, African Caribbean and European American transatlantic literary imagination. Chapters focus on heroic figures such as Toussaint L'Ouverture, Joseph Cinque, Madison Washington, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, exploring dramatisations of slave heroes by well-known and neglected nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, including Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, William Wells Brown, Charles Chesnutt, William Styron, C. L. R. James, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps and Pauline E. Hopkins.