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COVER front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Representations of People of Color in Nineteenth-Century American Accounts of Italian Travel -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: "A Mulatto Sculptor from New Orleans": Eugène Warburg in Europe, 1853-1859 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: "The Black Man To-day Means Liberty": African American Figures in the Work of Emanuel Leutze -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: "Something American": Art and Slavery in the Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Old Masters: The Western Tradition of the Visual Arts in African American Culture in the Civil War Era -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Contraband Guide: Mark Twain on Race and the Renaissance -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of "race" were far more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact