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• Commended for Honorable Mention for the Sharon Harris Book Award, granted by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute 2023 (United States)

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"""[A] fascinating and meticulously researched study....Cutter’s refusal to limit the book to biography, cultural history, or theorization of Brown’s performances allows her to fill gaps in historical scholarship while challenging the boundaries Brown’s lifespan might otherwise place on his innovation. Balancing readability and theoretical engagement, Cutter provides both useful information and insightful interpretations about African Americans’ participation in nineteenth-century visual culture while calling attention to intergenerational ties to our own visual and literary landscape."" * MELUS * ""Brown’s ingenious escape from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, by mailing himself in a wooden postal crate to abolitionists in Philadelphia, was unique and well documented. But that is not the story that most interests the author of this elegant cultural history. Cutter focuses on how Brown turned his experience in slavery into performance art on various tracks in many different locales"" * Pennsylvania Heritage *"

"""Brown’s ingenious escape from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, by mailing himself in a wooden postal crate to abolitionists in Philadelphia, was unique and well documented. But that is not the story that most interests the author of this elegant cultural history. Cutter focuses on how Brown turned his experience in slavery into performance art on various tracks in many different locales"" * Pennsylvania Heritage *"

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Martha J. Cutter is Professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800–1852; Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and Politics of Language Diversity; Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930; and the co-editor of Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels.

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