Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Prologue: staging manhood, writing manhood: cultural authority and the Indian body -- "De Genewine Artekil": William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and abolitionism -- The Indian in the museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and authentic manhood -- A "RaraAvis in Terris": Poe's "Hop-Frog" and race in the antebellum freak show -- Inward criminality and the shadow of race: the house of the seven gables and Daguerreotypy -- Epilogue: electric chains.