Experiments in Freedom
Experiments in Freedom
Fugitive Science in Transatlantic Performance
This chapter turns to the history of racist and anti-racist science as it was expressed in transatlantic performance from the 1830s through the 1850s. It maps a genealogy of overlap and exchange between popular scientific lecture circuits and early black performance in both the United States and Great Britain and chronicles how Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, William and Ellen Craft, and Henry Box Brown countered the widespread circulation of racist science in popular culture through dynamic performances of fugitive science in transatlantic spaces.
Keywords: black performance, popular culture, transatlantic, scientific lectures, Great Britain, Douglass, William Wells Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Henry Box Brown
NYU Press Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
