“Sons of Adam”: Text, Context, and the Early Modern African Subject

Authors

Herman L. Bennett, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2005

Abstract

Seeking to dislodge the prism that a singular political practice—represented as the story from savage to slave—informed the slave trade, this essay points to a distinct genealogy shaping the earliest encounters between Europeans and Africans.

Comments

This article was originally published in Representations, available at https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2005.92.1.16