<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>1. Introduction: The Contours of a Field (Cassander L. Smith, Nicholas R. Jones, Miles P. Grier)</p> <p>Part I. Space and Field</p> <p>2. Maroons in the <i>Montes</i>: Towards a Political Ecology of Marronage in the Sixteenth -Century Caribbean (Gabriel de Avilez Rocha)</p> <p>3. Women/Animals/Slaves: Race and Sexuality in Wycherley's <i>The Country Wife</i> (Derrick Higginbotham)</p> <p>Part II. Archives and Methods</p> <p>4. Choreographies of Trans-Atlantic Primitivity: Sub-Saharan Isolation in Black Dance Historiography (Esther J. Terry)</p> <p>5. Ventriloquizing Blackness: Citing Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, 1655-1685 by Ashley Williard</p> <p>6. "Candy No Witch in Her Country" What One Enslaved Woman's Testimony During the Salem Witch Trials Can Tell Us About the Origins of Early American Literature (Cassander L. Smith)</p> <p>Part III. Period Tensions</p> <p>7. "Is Black So Base a Hue?" Black Life Matters in Shakespeare's <i>Titus Andronicus</i> (David Sterling Brown)</p> <p>8. "[L]ooking at me my body across distances" Toni Morrison's <i>A Mercy</i> and Seventeenth-Century European Religious Concepts of Race (Lauren Shook)</p> <p>9. "Do you love, master?" The Erotics and Politics of Servitude in <i>The Tempest</i> (Rebecca Kumar)</p> <p>Part IV. Early Modern Black Lives Matter: A Critical Roundtable<b> </b></p> <p>10. Necrocapitalism and the Early Modern Iberian Black Diaspora as Academic Field (John Beusterien)</p> 11. Debt Collecting, Disappearance, Necromancy: A Response to John Beusterien (Nicholas R. Jones)<p></p> <p>12. Ain't She a Shakespearean: Truth, Giovanni, and Shakespeare (Dennis Austin Britton)</p> <p>13. The Color of Professionalism: A Response to Dennis Britton (Miles P. Grier)</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Cassander L. Smith</b> is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA. Her publications include a monograph, <i>Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World</i> (2016), and a co-edited volume, <i>Teaching with Tension: Race, Reality, and Resistance in the Classroom</i> (forthcoming).</p> <p><b>Nicholas R. Jones</b> is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Africana Studies at Bucknell University, USA. His publications include the forthcoming monograph <i>Staging Habla de negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain </i>and articles in the <i>Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies</i>, <i>Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies</i>, and <i>Hispanic Review</i>, among others.</p> <p><b>Miles P. Grier</b> is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, USA. He is finishing a book manuscript on Othello and the racialization of Atlantic literacy. His publications include essays in <i>The William and Mary Quarterly</i>, <i>Politics and Culture</i>, and <i>The Journal of Popular Music Studies</i>, among others.</p>