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...