The Octoroon by John Bell:

John Bell’s Octoroon, exploiting the popular iconography of melodramatic representations of the mid-nineteenth-century slave trade, represents a mixed-race woman whose "one-eighth African blood" dooms her to sexual servitude. This article contends that similar auction-block scenes prolifer...

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1. Verfasser: Roach, Joseph 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:John Bell’s Octoroon, exploiting the popular iconography of melodramatic representations of the mid-nineteenth-century slave trade, represents a mixed-race woman whose "one-eighth African blood" dooms her to sexual servitude. This article contends that similar auction-block scenes proliferated in novels, plays, and Abolitionist tracts, but they were founded on real conditions and practices.
ISSN:1543-1002

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