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"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--

Preliminary Material /P. Limb , N. Etherington and P. Midgley -- Indigenous Southern Africans And Colonialism: Introduction /Norman Etherington -- Reactions To Colonialism In Southern Africa: Some Historiographical Reflections /Chris Saunders -- Fenders Of Space: Kgatla Territorial Expansion Under Boer And British Rule, 1840–1920 /Fred Morton -- Intermediaries Of Class, Nation, And Gender In The African Response To Colonialism In South Africa, 1890s–1920s /Peter Limb -- Pastoral Modernity, Territoriality And Colonial Transformations In Central Namibia, 1860s–1904 /Dag Henrichsen -- Social And Political Responses To Colonialism On The Margins: Community, Chieftaincy And Ethnicity In Bulilima-Mangwe, Zimbabwe, 1890–1930 /Enocent Msindo -- Conflict And Negotiation Along The Lower Vaal River: Correspondence From The Tswana-Language Newspaper Mokaeri Oa Becuana /Stephen C. Volz and Part T. Mgadla -- Renaissance Men: Ntsikana, A. C. Jordan, S. E. K. Mqhayi And South Africa's Cultural Awakening /Peter Midgley -- African Intellectual And Literary Responses To Colonial Modernity In South Africa /Ntongela Masilela -- \'Then Came The Whiteman\': An African Poet And Polemicist On The Fateful Encounter /Grant Christison -- World Visions: 'Native Missionaries,' Mission Networks And Critiques Of Colonialism In Nineteenth-Century South Africa And Canada /Tolly Bradford -- Bibliography /P. Limb , N. Etherington and P. Midgley -- Index /P. Limb , N. Etherington and P. Midgley.