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by Gikandi, Simon;

identity, modern. See modern identity

  “If Me Want for Go in Ebo” (song)

  Ignatius Sancho (Gainsborough painting)

  images

  India, slavery in

  Indians, American

  individualism

  indulgence

  industrialization

  inequality

  Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (Hutcheson)

  instruments, musical

  Interesting Narrative, The (Equiano)

  Interior View of a Jamaica House of Corrections, An (engraving)

  Jacobean style

  Jacobs, Harriet

  Jallonka Wilderness

  Jamaica: English houses in; festivals in; provision grounds in; slaves and slavery in; Tacky's revolt (1760); torture in; Worthy Park plantation

  James Drummond (Medina painting)

  Jan Pranger, Director General of the Gold Coast (Mijn painting)

  Jane Eyre (Brontë)

  “Jaw-Bone, or House John-Canoe, 1837-38” (Belisario sketch)

  Jefferson, Jupiter

  Jefferson, Thomas: on blacks; Jupiter Jefferson and; on manners; on Native Americans; on slavery, See also Notes on the State of Virginia (T. Jefferson)

  Jobson, Richard

  John Canoe festival

  Johnson, Samuel

  Jones, Ann Rosalind

  Jones, Inigo

  Jones, Robert W.

  Jordan, Winthrop

  Journal of a West Indian Proprietor (Lewis)

  Journal of Tom Cringle (Scott)

  Juba (dance)

  Kamalia

  Kames, Henry Home, Lord

  Kant, Immanuel

  Kaplan, Emma Nogrady

  Kaplan, Sidney

  Kaye, Anthony E.

  Kemble, E. W.

  Kéroualle, Louise de

  Kneller, Godfrey

  Knight, Joseph

  Knight v. Wederburn

  knowable community

  Kristeller, Paul Oskar

  Kristeva, Julia

  Kriz, Kay Dian

  Kromanti Rebellion (1760)

  Kühn, Justus Engelhardt

  Labat, Jean Pierre

  labor. See also work

  Lacan, Jacques

  Lafayette, Marquis de

  Lamont, Michèle

  landscapes, of slavery

  Lane, William Henry

  Laplanche, Jean

  Larpent, Anna Margaretta

  Larpent, John

  Latrobe, Benjamin

  laws: slavery laws; sumptuary laws

  Le Roy, Emmanuel

  Lee, Arthur

  Lee, William

  Lees-Milne, James

  leisure

  Leslie, Charles

  Lewis, Matthew Gregory

  Liberator (newspaper)

  lieux de mémoire

  Ligon, Richard

  Linen Market at St. Domingo, The (Brunias painting)

  Linnaeus, Carl

  literacy

  Literary Party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, A (G. Thompson engraving)

  Liverpool

  Locke, John

  Long, Edward: on black uncleanliness; on dancing; John Canoe festival and; on Mansfield Decision; Oranootan comment by; on Charles Price's house; racism of; on slaves as cultivators; on slaves' masters; on white Creoles; on F. Williams's poetry. See also History of Jamaica, The (Long)

  loss

  Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (Mignard portrait)

  luck, moral

  Lufman, John

  luxury

  luxury goods

  lynchings

  Lyotard, Jean-François

  Madden, Richard Robert

  Madia, Princess

  Madison, John

  magic

  Making of the Modern Self, The (Wahrman)

  Mallet, Alain Manesson

  “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe” (Spillers)

  Mande (West African society)

  manners

  Mansfield 1st Earl of

  Mansfield Decision (1772)

  Marsden, Peter

  Marx, Karl

  masks, African

  Maurits, Johan

  Mauss, Marcel

  McElroy, Guy C.

  McKendrick, Neil

  McLeod, Bet

  medallion with slave (Wedgewood)

  Medina, John Baptiste de

  Meheux, John

  melancholy. See also sadness; sorrow

  Melrose Plantation

  Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadeee, King of Dahomy (Norris)

  memory

  Mercier, Philippe

  metanarratives

  Metoyer, Marie Thèrése

  Meynell, Francis

  Middle East, slavery in

  middle passage

  Mignard, Pierre

  Mignot, Louis Remy

  Mijn, Frans van der

  Miller, Christopher

  Miller, John Chester

  Milton, John

  mimicry

  miscegenation

  Miseroni, Ferdinand Eusebio

  Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary (portrait)

  modern identity: emergence of; Europeans and; freedom and; modernity and; moral space and; slave trade and; slavery and. See also identity

  modern self

  modernity: art and; concept of; culture of; epistemological framework of; in Europe; foundational narratives of; modern identity and; project of; racial ideology and; slave trade and; slaves and slavery and

  Monboddo, Lord

  Monk, The (Lewis)

  Montagu, Duke of

  Montpelier Estate, St. James (Hakewill print)

  moral luck

  moral space

  morality

  Moreton, J. B.

  Morgan, Henry

  Morgan, Philip

  Morris, Gouverneur

  Morrison, Toni

  Mortenson, Preben

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  mulatress

  Mulberry Plantation

  Murray, William

  music “Music Party, The” (Mercier painting)

  musical instruments

  muzzles

  Myal and Myalism

  nabobs

  nakedness. See also stripping

  Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (Stedman)

  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass)

  Native Americans

  natural rights

  Nealee (African woman)

  négatités

  Negative Dialectics (Adorno)

  negativity/negation

  “Nègre” (Romain)

  Negro airs

  Negro Dance on a Cuban Plantation (illustration)

  Negro Festival Drawn from Nature on the Island of St. Vincent, A (Brunias painting)

  Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows (Blake engraving)

  Negroes (term)

  Nelson, Lord

  Nettleford, Rex

  New and Accurate Description of Guinea, A (Bosman)

  New Eighteenth Century, The (Nussbaum & Brown)

  New Orleans, Louisiana

  Newton, John

  Nora, Pierre

  Norris, Robert

  Notes on the State of Virginia (T. Jefferson)

  novels, English nsunsu (dance)

  Nugent, Lady

  Nussbaum, Felicity

  Obama, Barack Hussein

  Obeah

  objectification

  objectivism

  Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime (Kant)

  occult practices

  “Of the Standard of Taste” (Hume)

  Old Bramshill

  Old Plantation, South Carolina, The (painting)

  olfactory ontology

  Olmstead, Frederick Law

  On Beauty and Being Just (Scarry)

  On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Schiller)
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  order

  ordinary life

  orientation, spatial

  Origin of German Tragic Drama, The (Benjamin)

  Orrery, Earl of

  overdetermination

  Padua after 1782 (Cozens)

  pain

  Paine, Thomas

  paintings. See also images; portraits; specific paintings

  Palladian style

  Paris, France

  Park, Mungo

  Parkstead House

  Pascal, Michael Henry

  patronyms

  Patterson, Orlando; Slavery and Social Death; The Sociology of Slavery

  performances: Douglass on; Equiano on; purpose and function of; rituals and; white observations of. See also dances and dancing; festivals; music

  Perinbam, B. Marie

  Petty, William

  Phenomenology of the Mind (Hegel)

  Phillips, Thomas

  Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, A (E. Burke)

  physical space

  Pinckard, George

  Pinkster festival

  Pinney, John

  Pitt, William (the Elder)

  Pitt, William (the Younger)

  plantation life

  plantation system

  Planter, Attended by Negro Driver (illustration)

  planters, of West Indies

  play

  Plumb, John

  Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Wheatley)

  poetry

  politeness

  ponds, at Assin Manso

  Pontalis, J.-B.

  poor, the

  Popkin, Richard

  porcelain

  Portrait of Frederick Douglass as a Younger Man (Buttre engraving)

  portraits. See also images; paintings; specific portraits

  post of the self

  pottery

  pragmatics

  Pranger, Jan

  prejudice

  Price, Charles

  Prince, Mary

  Princess Madia, Enslaved African from the Congo (illustration)

  Principal's Lodge

  private space

  private spheres

  Propping Sorrow (dance)

  provision grounds

  public space

  public spheres

  punishment. See also violence

  Rabelais, François

  Rabelais and His World (Bakhtin)

  race and racism

  Rafael, Vicente

  Ragatz, Lowell Joseph

  reading, staging of

  “Red Set-Girls, and Jack-in-the-Green, 1837-38” (Belisario sketch)

  Reflections of Poetry (Baumgarten)

  regulation

  Rembrandt, Harmenszoon van Rijn

  repression

  revolts, slave. See also Tacky's revolt (1760)

  Reynolds, Joshua

  rice

  Richardson, Samuel

  Ricoeur, Paul

  Rights of Man, The (Paine)

  rituals

  Roach, Joseph

  Romain, M. le

  Romney, George

  Rose Hall

  Rossiter, Thomas Pritchard

  Rowlandson, Thomas

  Royal African Company

  Rubens, Peter Paul

  Ruffing, Thomas

  Rulhier, Claude Carloman de

  Rumbold, Thomas

  “Sable Venus, The” (Teale)

  sadness. See also melancholy; sorrow

  Sahel

  Said, Edward

  Saine, Thomas

  Saine, Ute

  salons

  Sancho, Ignatius

  Santeria

  Sartre, Jean Paul

  Savage, Edward

  Scarry, Elaine

  Scenes of Subjection (Hartman)

  Schama, Simon

  Schaw, Janet

  Schiller, J. C. Friedrich von

  Schultz, Christian

  Scott, Michael

  Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam (Greenwood painting)

  Second Treatise on Government (Locke)

  secular excommunication

  selfhood

  sense

  senses

  sensibility

  sensuousness

  sentiment

  Set-Girls festival

  shackling, of slaves

  Shadwell (plantation)

  Shaffer, E. S.

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper

  Sharpe, Jenny

  ships, slave. See also specific ships

  significance

  slave castles

  “Slave deck of the Albaroz ” (Meynell)

  “Slave Deck of the Albaroz, Prize to the Albatross, 1845” (Meynell)

  Slave Play in Suriname (Van Valkenburg painting)

  Slave River

  slave ships. See also specific ships

  slave trade: as a business interest; cultural value and semantics transformation and; Dutch wealth and power and; enabling of; growth of; iconography of; modern identity and; modernity and; Newton on; ordinariness of; in Sahel; slavery and

  slave traders

  Slave-Coffle Passing the Capitol, A (illustration)

  slavery: in Africa; in American colonies; as anachronistic; arguments against; art and; banality of; William Beckford and; in Britain; in China; civilization and; Codrington and; at Constitutional Convention (1787); cultural capital and; Douglass on; economy of; in England; in Europe; excluding; Finley on; in France; freedom and; Garnsey on; happiness and; hybridization and; iconography of; in India; in Jamaica; Jefferson on; Johnson on; landscapes of; laws; in Middle East; modern identity and; modernity and; moral luck and; pain and; in paintings and portraits; Patterson on; power doctrine in; Prince on; punishment and; racism and; slave trade and; sorrow and; spaces of sociability of; sugar and; taste and; torture and violence; violence of and culture of taste; Washington and; wealth and; in West Indies

  Slavery and Social Death (Patterson)

  slaves: aesthetics of; affective nature of; in antebellum South; art and; auctions of; aura of blackness in; from Bambarran army; in Britain; as chattels; codes of; collars of; confinement of; as cultivators; dances and; debasement of; delusions and; in English portraiture; exclusion from modern sensorium; Foucault on; gardens of; genealogy and; holidays of; houses built by; iconography and images of; identity of; in Jamaica; labor and; masters and; memory of; modernity and; music and; naming of; narratives of; negative sensorium of; notion of the future; objectification of; performances of (see performances); presence/absence of; punishment and; remains of in New York; revolts by; ritualistic function of; rituals and; sale of; shackling of; spaces and; speech forms of; stripping of; symbolism and; traces of; transition from Africa to Americas; visibility and invisibility of; in West Indies. See also blacks; slave trade

  “Slaves Packed Below and On Deck” (illustration)

  Slaves Waiting for Sale-Richmond, Virginia (Crowe painting)

  Sloane, Hans

  Smallwood, Stephanie

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Mark

  Snelgrave, William

  Soane, John

  Sobel, Mechal

  social death

  social life

  social order

  social rank

  social relationships

  Society for the Abolition of Slavery

  Sociology for the South (Fitzhugh)

  Sociology of Slavery, The (Patterson)

  Soest, Gerard

  Somersett, James

  songs of sorrow

  sorcery

  sorrow. See also melancholy; sadness

  sorrow songs

  Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois)

  Sources of Self (C. Taylor)

  South, antebellum

  South Carolina, task system in

  spaces: autonomous spaces; cultural spaces; Foucault on ; functional symbolism of; mora
l space; ontology of; physical space; of play; private space; public space; slaves and; of sociability; spatial orientation; symbolic spaces

  spectacle

  Spillers, Hortense

  spirituals, Negro

  Stallybrass, Peter

  Stedman, John Gabriel

  Steele, Richard

  Sterne, Lawrence

  Steuart, Charles

  Stewart, John

  Stono Rebellion (1739)

  Stowell, Lord

  stripping. See also nakedness

  Stuckey, Sterling

  subjecthood

  sublime

  sugar

  Sullivan, Ben

  Summerson, John

  sumptuary laws

  Suriname

  surveillance

  symbolic inversion

  symbolic spaces

  symbols and symbolism

  Tacky's revolt (1760)

  tactics

  Tallmadge, James, Jr.

  Taney, Robert B.

  task system

  taste: commerce and; discourses about; establishment of the realm of; Hume and; judgment of; politics in; principles of; as regulatory mechanism; slavery and; social gatherings and; standards of; theories of. See also culture of taste

  Taura, Karfa

  Taylor, Charles. See also Sources of Self (C. Taylor)

  Taylor, John

  Teale, Isaac

  Thackeray, William

  Theodore, Johan

  Theophila Palmer Reading “Clarissa Harlowe” (Reynolds painting)

  Theory of Moral Sentiments (A. Smith)

  Thompson, E. P.

  Thompson, George

  Thompson, Robert Farris

  Thornhill, James

  Thornton, John

  Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of the Slave Trade (Cugoano)

  Tiepolo, Giovani Batista

  tobacco

  torture. See also violence

  Toure, Samouri

  traces

  transcendentalism

  translation

  Trauerspiel

  Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (Park)

  treadmills

  Troxxilla, Pedro Diez

  Trumbull, John

  Two Negroes (Rembrandt painting),

  uncleanliness

  “Under the Portuguese Flag. Slavery in the Portuguese districts of South-east Africa. from a sketch by Sir John Willoughby.” (Durand engraving)

  undressing

  Van Dantzig, Albert

  Van Dyck, Anthony

  Van Valkenburg, Dirk

  Vanbrugh, John

  Vassa, Gustavus

  Vathek (W. Beckford)

  Vauxhall Gardens

  Velasquez, Diego

  Ventós, Rupert de

  Victoria and Albert Museum

  View of Mulberry House and Street (Coram painting)

  violence: dialectic of; poetry as counterpart to; sexualized violence; slavery and; work and. See also pain; punishment; torture

  Virginian Luxuries (painting)

  Virgnia, blacks in

  virtue, commerce and

  Vlach, John

 

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