Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: “I Thought That to Seem Was to Be”: Spectacles of Race in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Imaginary 1
5. 1. “Stamped and Molded by Pleasure”: The Transnational Mulatta in Jamaica and Saint-Domingue 17
6. 2. “Fascinating Allurements of Gold”: New Orleans’s “Copper-Colored Nymphs” and the Tragic Mulatta 37
7. 3. “Oh Heavens! What Am I?”: The Tragic Mulatta as Sensation Heroine 65
8. 4. “I Wonder What Market He Means That Daughter For”: The Beautiful Jewess and the Tragic Muse 92
9. 5. “After All, Living Is but to Play a Part”: The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse 128
10. Conclusion: “I Know What I Am”: Race and the Triumphant “New Woman” 159
11. Notes 189
12. Index 219
13. About the Author 225