Introduction Imoinda, Marriage, Slavery
Part One—Imoinda’s Original Shades: African Women in British Antislavery Literature
Chapter 1—Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Drama
Chapter 2—Amelioration, African Women, and The Soft, Strategic Voice of Paternal Tyranny in The Grateful Negro
Chapter 3—“Between the saints and the rebels”: Imoinda and the Resurrection of the Black African Heroine
Part Two—Imoinda’s Shade Extends: Abolition and Interracial Marriage in England
Chapter 4—Creoles, Closure, and Cubba’s Comedy of Pain: Abolition and the Politics of Homecoming in Eighteenth-Century British Farce
Chapter 5—“‘What!’ cried the delighted mulatto, ‘are we going to prosecu massa?’”: Adeline Mowbray’s Distinguished Complexion of Abolition
Chapter 6—“An unportioned girl of my complexion can . . . be a dangerous object.” Abolition and the Mulatto Heiress in England