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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800 -- A Golden Age? -- Economic Downturns and Political Uprisings -- Dutch Abolitionism and Resistance in the Colonies -- The Politics and Aesthetics of Dutch Theater -- 2. Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification -- Selico and the Pattern of the Disrupted West African Family -- Plantation Testimonies and Sympathy Rewarded in De negers -- Kraspoekol, the Colonial Oikos, and the Bildung of the White Hero -- Antislavery as a "Window of Opportunity" -- 3. Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re-Commercializing Slavery -- Blacking-Up around 1800 -- "A Black needs little to enjoy his life" -- Subversion and Spectacle in Pantalon, Oost-Indisch planter -- Zabi, or Early Blackface Burlesque in Paulus en Virginia -- The Repertoire of Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Black Pete -- 4. Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance -- Monzongo and the Justified Revolt against Spanish Tyranny -- Imagining the Haitian Revolution and the Black Spartacus in De blanke en de zwarte -- The Batavian Temple of Liberty -- A Pedestal for Raynal? -- 5. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- 1 Antislavery Plays Published in the Netherlands, 1770-1810 -- 2 Performances of the Dutch "Repertoire of Slavery" -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 Colored engraving for Jean-Pierre C. de Florian, "Selico, eene Afrikaansche geschiedenis," in Nieuwe vertellingen van den heer M. Florian, trans. Daniël Vrijdag (The Hague: J.C. Leeuwenstijn, 1801). We see the three brothers taking care of their.
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