Peter P. Reed is Associate Professor of Early American Literature at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Rogue Performances (2009) as well as essays on Black Atlantic performance, theatre culture, and Haiti's impact on American culture.

• Introduction: performing the Haitian revolution; 1. Rebels and refugees: sentimental suffering and antic revolt in the 1790s; 2. The lessons of Haiti: performance, pedagogy, and the politics of Haitian independence; 3. Virtuosity, illegitimacy, and Haitian royalty: Ira Aldridge and Christophe, King of Hayti; 4. Travesty and transformation: Haiti and blackface minstrelsy; 5. Abolitionist acts: Haitian respectability, oratory, and celebrity performance; Conclusion: the pleasures and perils of revolutionary reenactment.

Peter P. Reed is Associate Professor of Early American Literature at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Rogue Performances (2009) as well as essays on Black Atlantic performance, theatre culture, and Haiti's impact on American culture.

• Introduction: performing the Haitian revolution; 1. Rebels and refugees: sentimental suffering and antic revolt in the 1790s; 2. The lessons of Haiti: performance, pedagogy, and the politics of Haitian independence; 3. Virtuosity, illegitimacy, and Haitian royalty: Ira Aldridge and Christophe, King of Hayti; 4. Travesty and transformation: Haiti and blackface minstrelsy; 5. Abolitionist acts: Haitian respectability, oratory, and celebrity performance; Conclusion: the pleasures and perils of revolutionary reenactment.

Peter P. Reed is Associate Professor of Early American Literature at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Rogue Performances (2009) as well as essays on Black Atlantic performance, theatre culture, and Haiti's impact on American culture.

• Introduction: performing the Haitian revolution; 1. Rebels and refugees: sentimental suffering and antic revolt in the 1790s; 2. The lessons of Haiti: performance, pedagogy, and the politics of Haitian independence; 3. Virtuosity, illegitimacy, and Haitian royalty: Ira Aldridge and Christophe, King of Hayti; 4. Travesty and transformation: Haiti and blackface minstrelsy; 5. Abolitionist acts: Haitian respectability, oratory, and celebrity performance; Conclusion: the pleasures and perils of revolutionary reenactment.