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Pleasures of the Smoke: \Black Virginians\ in Georgian London's Tobacco Shops
The imagined origins of tobacco in tobacco shop advertisements complicate modern historians' understanding of the intersection of race, consumption, and male homosociality in late-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London. Though tobacco has long been considered an important factor shaping the development of New World settlements and colonial practices of slavery, scholars have only begun to analyze the ways in which tobacco, sugar, and other Atlantic and Eastern goods engendered new forms of sociability and new spaces of consumption in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Journal Article
FALSE GIFTS/EXOTIC FICTIONS: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND ASSENT IN APHRA BEHN'S \OROONOKO\
Reading Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) as a creative intervention into philosophical debates about political obligation allows us to understand its critical contribution to the acute crisis confronting English subjects during the Glorious Revolution. Moving beyond previous scholarship that has debated Behn's political affiliations, this paper locates Oroonoko in the midst of ongoing conversations about the unstable character of sovereignty and political subjectivity. It argues that, rather than taking the fictions of sovereignty to a neat theoretical conclusion (à la Thomas Hobbes and John Milton), Behn uses the Atlantic stage to interrogate the epistemological and moral uncertainties that haunted all forms of political obligation. In doing so, she offers a model for how the female poet-playwright could navigate social and political unrest.
Journal Article
Hogarth's Fashionable Slaves: Moral Corruption in Eighteenth-Century London
Molineux examines William Hogarth's graphic works and his representations of slaves--the tradition of art and the social situation in London. She claims that Hogarth's transformation of the fashion for slaves into the fashion for slavery should be understood as an important contribution to an ongoing concern that owning slaves corrupted the masters.
Journal Article
The Peripheries Within: Race, Slavery, and Empire in Early Modern England
\"The Peripheries Within\" explores visual and literary representations of black bodies in English popular culture, from 1688 to 1807. By turning to prints, journals, signboards, pornography, paintings, and other forms of media, this project recovers a century-long popular and often transatlantic debate over the virtues of colonization, the meanings of racial difference, and the morality of the slave trade. From Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) to late eighteenth-century satires, Britons used representations of black bodies to explore their own fears of political and economic dependency, to articulate English mastery in relation to that of other European powers, and to negotiate their place within an Atlantic world whose human diversity threatened to destabilize their understandings of themselves as God's chosen people. During the Restoration and early Georgian era, Britons struggled to maintain idealistic notions of English imperialism as a benevolent, Christian mission in the face of slave rebellions abroad, the failure of planters to convert their slaves, their own inability to imagine black bodies within the Protestant community, and subversive strands of imperial thought that envisioned imperialism as mock-heroic conquest or fraternal trade with black heathens. By the mid-eighteenth century, Britons could no longer displace the problems of slavery onto planters abroad; narratives of English degeneration in the colonies gave way to satirical critiques of domestic slavery as a sign of metropolitan corruption. The American Revolution caused an ideological crisis expressed, in part, by conflating social unrest at home—symbolized by the rising numbers of blacks in London—with the loss of the mainland colonies. Grotesque racial imagery and the abolitionist movement reflect Britons' attempt to stabilize their identities in the face of imperial decline. This project argues that imagined encounters with the black body allowed Britons to, among other things, negotiate the meanings of empire, slavery, and racial difference, articulate evolving conceptions of themselves as a Protestant people in an expanding world, and confront the subversive potential of the peripheries within England. The late eighteenth-century Enlightenment and antislavery debates were the culmination of an ongoing discussion about the implications of England's colonizing role within the Atlantic world.
Dissertation
Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
Molineux reviews Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums by Samuel James Redman.
Book Review
Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850
Molineux reviews Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850 by Jenna M. Gibbs.
Book Review