“How a Man Was Made a Slave”: Contraband, Chiasmus, and the Failure of Visual Abolitionism Available to Purchase

Maurice Wallace is Associate Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Duke. He is the author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775–1995 (Duke UP). At Duke, he teaches African American literature, black literary and cultural theory, nineteenth-century American literature and visual culture.