As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of
slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently
coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in
nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O'Brien explores how
authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis
Gomez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based
rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States
with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less
familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous
contemporaries--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia
Maria Child--O'Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom
through the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial
relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of
sources--fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race
science, and biblical treatises--to reveal a common concern: a
future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and
political transformation.
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