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MISS SMITH as IMOINDA Imo. ____ Indians or English: Whoever has me, I am still a slave. Published as the Act directs by J. Roach. Russell Court. Drury Lane June 18, 1806
Secondary Criticism:
"Blackness in the eighteenth century was of course used to characterize persons from the Indies, the Americas, Africa, or the South Pacific; it was also applied to the Irish as a mark of their Celtish origins, and more generally ot the laboring classes, especially coalminers and chimney sweeps. Yet it was not clear how fundamental dark coloring might be." --Felicity A. Nussbaum, "Black women: why Imoinda turns white," The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), 151-188. 151.