Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World

CONTENTS
Introduction: envisioning slave portraiture / Angela Rosenthal and Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

PART I. Visibility and invisibility
Slavery and the possibilities of portraiture / Marcia Pointon
Subjectivity and slavery in portraiture: from courtly to commercial societies / David Bindman
Looking for Scipio Moorhead: an "African painter" in revolutionary North America / Eric Slauter

PART II. Slave portraiture, colonialism, and modern imperial culture
Three gentlemen from Esmeraldas: a portrait fit for a king / Tom Cummins
Metamorphoses of the self in early-modern Spain: slave portraiture and the case of Juan de Pareja / Carmen Fracchia
Of sailors and slaves: portraiture, property, and the trials of circum-Atlantic subjectivities, c. 1750-1830 / Geoff Quilley
Between violence and redemption: slave portraiture in early plantation Cuba / Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

PART III. Subjects to scientific and ethnographic knowledge
Albert Eckhout's African Woman and Child (1641): ethnographic portraiture, slavery, and the New World subject / Rebecca P. Brienen
Embodying African knowledge in colonial Surinam: two William Blake engravings in Stedman's 1796 Narrative / Susan Scott Parrish
Exquisite empty shells: sculpted slave portraits and the French ethnographic turn / James Smalls

PART IV. Facing Abolition
Who is the subject? Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist's Portrait d'une Ne'gresse / Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff
The many faces of Toussaint Loverture / Helen Weston
Cinqué: a heroic portrait for the abolitionist cause / Toby Chieffo-Reidway
The Intrepid Mariner Simão: visual histories of blackness in the Luso-Atlantic at the end of the slave trade / Daryle Williams.