Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: The Fear of "French Negroes" -- Introduction: Mobile Culture, Mobilized Politics -- 1. Canine Warfare in the Circum-Caribbean -- Cuban Bloodhounds and Transcolonial Terror Networks -- A Discursive Battle of Wills -- Culture and Public Memory -- 2. "Une et indivisible?" The Struggle for Freedom in Hispaniola -- "L'île d'Haiti forme le territoire de la République": The Early Years of Antislavery Border Politics -- The Meaning of Freedom -- Haitian Generals: Ogou Iconography on Both Sides of the Border -- Guangua pangnol pi fort pasé ouanga haitien -- 3. "Negroes of the Most Desperate Character": Privateering and Slavery in the Gulf of Mexico -- Race, Privateering, and the Gulf South in the 1810s -- To Fight Ably and Valiantly against One's Own Race -- The Cultural Afterlives of Impossible Patriots -- 4. French Set Girls and Transcolonial Performance -- The French Set Girls -- Reconsidering the Migration of "French" Cultural Capital -- Embodied Wisdom and Attunement -- Circum-Caribbean Repercussions of Saint-Domingue -- Legacies -- 5. "Sentinels on the Watch-Tower of Freedom": The Black Press of the 1830s and 1840s -- Periodical Campaigns: Promoting an African Diasporic Literacy Project -- Class, Migration, and Transcolonial Labor Relations -- Caribbean Federation: Advancing National Interests through a Regionalist Lens -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Consulted and Discography -- Index.