Equiano, Olaudah

This dissertation looks to the early American literary marketplace and argues that the American maritime genre, assumed to have begun with James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pilot in 1824, was not an uncontested genre prior to Cooper’s popularization of maritime nationalism. Inst…

Black captives and voyagers comprised the vast majority of all eighteenth-century Atlantic migrants, yet the migration history of the British Atlantic largely ignores them. The oversight holds hostage the development of a more global understanding of transatlantic dislocation. T…