Journeys of the slave narrative in the early Americas

Introduction: Remapping the Early Slave Narrative / Nicole N. Aljoe

Irony and Modernity in the Early Slave Narrative : Bonds of Duty, Contracts of Meaning / Ian Finseth

Trials and Confessions of Fugitive Slave Narratives / Gretchen J. Woertendyke

"They Us'd Me Pretty Well" : Briton Hammon and Cross-Cultural Alliances in the Maritime Borderlands of the Florida Coast / Jeffrey Gagnon

Uncommon Sufferings : Rethinking Bondage in A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man / Keith Michael Green

Narrating an Indigestible Trauma : The Alimentary Grammar of Boyrereau Brinch's Middle Passage / Lynn R. Johnson

"The Most Perfect Picture of Cuban Slavery" : Transatlantic Bricolage in Manzano's and Madden's Poems by a Slave / R.J. Boutelle

Seeking a Righteous King : A Bahamian Runaway Slave in Cuba / Jose Guadalupe Ortega

Literary Form and Islamic Identity in The Life of Omar Ibn Said / Basima Kamel Shaheen

Coda: Animating Absence / Kristina Bross.