Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: The Making of a Race (Man) -- 1 The View from Above: Plácido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists -- 2 The View from Next Door: Plácido Through Black Abolitionists' Eyes -- Part Two: Both (Race) and (Nation)? -- 3 On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Plácido -- 4 "We Intend to Stay Here": The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass's Representations of African American Community -- 5 "More a Haitian Than an American": Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States -- Part Three: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race -- 6 A Slave's Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity -- 7 Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.