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  • Chapter 5 - (Not)freedom

  • Edited by Manu Samriti Chander, Georgetown University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
    Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024, pp 78-97

  • Summary

    DJ Lee and Aaron Oforlea’s chapter approaches Coleridge from a different angle, counterposing his vision of freedom with that of the Black Loyalists who supported the English during the American Revolution. Lee and Oforlea’s titular phrase “(not)Freedom” refers to “the fragmentation, resistance, and transgression with which Black Loyalists lived,” which is exemplified in the Loyalists’ linguistic practices. Whether by mimicking the language of white Europeans or by developing a distinctive lingo that infused poetry into the language of transactions, the Loyalists demonstrated a model of freedom – (not)freedom – that was local and transitory, contextually dependent, and always precarious.