Mischa Honeck is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His first book, We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 (University of Georgia Press, 2011), was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011.

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann

PART I: SAINTS AND SLAVES, MOORS AND HESSIANS

Chapter 1. The Calenberg Altarpiece: Black African Christians in Renaissance Germany
Paul Kaplan

Chapter 2. The Black Diaspora in Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, with Special Reference to German-Speaking Areas
Kate Lowe

Chapter 3. Ambiguous Duty: Black Servants at German Ancien Régime Courts
Anne Kuhlmann

Chapter 4. Real and Imagined Africans in German Court divertissements
Rashid-S. Pegah

Chapter 5. From American Slaves to Hessian Subjects: Silenced Black Narratives of the American Revolution
Maria Diedrich

PART II: FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO EMPIRE

Chapter 6. The German Reception of African American Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century
Heike Paul

Chapter 7. "On the Brain of the Negro": Race, Abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann's Scientific Discourse on the African Diaspora
Jeannette Eileen Jones

Chapter 8. Liberating Sojourns? African American Travelers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany
Mischa Honeck

Chapter 9. Global Proletarians, Uncle Toms and Native Savages: The Antinomies of Black Identity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Bradley Naranch

Chapter 10. We Shall Make Farmers of Them Yet: Tuskegee's Uplift Ideology in German Togoland
Kendahl Radcliffe

Chapter 11. Education and Migration: Cameroonian School Children and Apprentices in the German Metropole, 1884-1914
Robbie Aitken

Afterword: Africans in Europe: New Perspectives
Dirk Hoerder

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Notes on Contributors

Index