INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Illustrations vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. Part I SAINTS AND SLAVES, MOORS AND HESSIANS
7. Chapter One THE CALENBERG ALTARPIECE Black African Christians in Renaissance Germany 21
8. Chapter Two THE BLACK DIASPORA IN EUROPE IN THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GERMAN-SPEAKING AREAS 38
9. Chapter Three AMBIGUOUS DUTY Black Servants at German Ancien Régime Courts 57
10. Chapter Four REAL AND IMAGINED AFRICANS IN BAROQUE COURT DIVERTISSEMENTS 74
11. Chapter Five FROM AMERICAN SLAVES TO HESSIAN SUBJECTS Silenced Black Narratives of the American Revolution 92
12. Part II FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO EMPIRE
13. Chapter Six THE GERMAN RECEPTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY 115
14. Chapter Seven “ON THE BRAIN OF THE NEGRO” Race, Abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann’s Scientifi c Discourse on the African Diaspora 134
15. Chapter Eight LIBERATING SOJOURNS? African American Travelers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany 153
16. Chapter Nine GLOBAL PROLETARIANS, UNCLE TOMS, AND NATIVE SAVAGES Popular German Race Science in the Emancipation Era 169
17. Chapter Ten WE SHALL MAKE FARMERS OF THEM YET Tuskegee’s Uplift Ideology in German Togoland 187
18. Chapter Eleven EDUCATION AND MIGRATION Cameroonian Schoolchildren and Apprentices in Germany, 1884–1914 213
19. Afterword AFRICANS IN EUROPE New Perspectives 231
20. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 241
21. Contributors 249
22. Index 252