Abolitionist Traces, Interimperial Contexts: Briton Hammon's&nbsp;<em>Narrative</em> (1760) in Cuba and in Print

Дата публикации: 04-09-2026 00:00:00

By taking seriously interimperialist contexts, this article reinterprets Briton Hammon’s Narrative (1760), contesting, especially due to Hammon’s presence in Havana, Cuba, commonly accepted notions of canonicity across literary genres in the Americas. I argue that one must read this short piece against the grain of the US literary canon in which Hammon’s Narrative has been canonized as “the first slave narrative,” almost exclusively in an anglophone setting. I offer the term “abolitionist traces” as literary method to address how Hammon’s multilinguistic and interimperial contexts become suppressed due to the conditions of the text’s publication by Green and Russell and advertisement in pro-British and proslavery periodical Boston Post-Boy. Rather than concede that this New England colonial context determines the text’s ultimate scope, I read a revolutionary Caribbean context alongside Hammon by way of the Hispanophone Havana, where Hammon spends...

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