The End of Supplication: The Invention of Prostrate Blackness as a Replacement for the Maroon

The figure of the supplicant negro-a figure famously represented in Josiah Wedgewood's 18th-century anti-slavery medallion-continues to sideline radical Black anti-colonialist struggle.

The End of the Supplication contends that Black freedom struggles are anti-colonial movements against anti-Blackness and the permutations of slavery, and as such they are ill-served by a dominant Civil Rights discourse that escapes neither the paternalism of white abolitionism nor the caricatures of minstrels...