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Informationen zum Autor FRANCES R. BOTKIN is a professor of English at Towson University in Maryland. Klappentext Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as ""Three-Fingered Jack"", terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost two years. An outlaw, thief, and killer, he was also a freedom fighter. Frances R. Botkin has compiled and analysed the various plays and songs written about Three-Fingered Jack throughout the centuries in order to show how this story travelled from the Caribbean to England and the US. Zusammenfassung Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as ""Three-Fingered Jack"", terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost two years. An outlaw, thief, and killer, he was also a freedom fighter. Frances R. Botkin has compiled and analysed the various plays and songs written about Three-Fingered Jack throughout the centuries in order to show how this story travelled from the Caribbean to England and the US. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons 2. "Jack Is a MAN" Prose Obis, 1800-1870 3. Staging Obi: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack 5. After Emancipatio: Masquerade and Miscegenation 6. Mansong: No Longer "Nearly Everybody Wite" Epilogue: "The Baddest Man Around" Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
