Genius in Bondage

This is an excellent, indeed a monumental collection of essays, one that will set the standard for scholarship in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Black Atlantic studies for years to come.

~Adam Potkay

A reminder that literature is a complex language because, regardless of condition, circumstance, class, or colour, people are endowed with genuine feelings and complicated thoughts that make up the human experience.

~Dalhousie Review

By introducing new texts and offering new perspectives on early Black writers, Genius in Bondage confirms the vigor of early Black Atlantic studies and the genius of the literature it represents.

~Early American Literature

Moves us back in time and significantly beyond the constraints of analysis rooted in the search for the origins of a unique African American literary tradition. Students will ignore eighteenth-century black autobiography at their peril.

~Journal of American History

This superb collection on the range of early black literary activity constitutes cutting-edge scholarship.... A work of enormous significance.

~Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodala