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Introduction: 'I thought that to seem was to be': spectacles of race in the nineteenth-century transatlantic imaginary

'Stamped and molded by pleasure': the transnational mulatta in Jamaica and Saint-Domingue

'Fascinating allurements of gold': New Orleans's 'copper-colored nymphs' and the tragic mulatta

'Oh heavens! what am I?': the tragic mulatta as sensation heroine

'I wonder what market he means that daughter for': the beautiful jewess and the tragic muse

'After all, living is but to play a part': the tragic mulatta plays the tragic muse

Conclusion: 'I know what I am': race and the triumphant 'new woman'.