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The Black Vampyre tells the story of a black slave, who is resurrected as a vampire after being killed by his captor; the slave seeks revenge on his captor and achieves it by stealing the captor's son and marrying the captor's wife.
Dec 20, 2023 · The Black-Vampyre, The Black Vampyre, Black vampire, Uriah Derick D’arcy, Uriah Derick DArcy, Uriah D'arcy, Uriah Darcy, vampires, black vampires, undead, public domain, short story Collection opensource Language English
Oct 30, 2020 · Important for being the first American vampire text and for depicting the first Black vampire in literature, The Black Vampyre has a contemporary resonance. The racism cultivated by slavery...
Oct 31, 2020 · Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and plantation owners!This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror to...
The Black Vampire draws on this obeah literature to enmesh it with vampirism, sprinkling the already well-established conventions common to representations of obeah throughout its vampire plot. Obeah fictions, for instance, recounted enslaved Africans’ abilities to imbue inert objects with animating power—as they assembled little bags or ...
Oct 30, 2020 · This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror, to radical outrage, to in-jokes for the New York literati and broadsides on the morality of slavery, reaching a blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying the bankers who caused the horrendous economic ...
- Uriah Derick D'Arcy
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A full pdf and critical introduction to The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo (1819) is available at this link. This text has been made available by Professors Duncan Faherty and Ed White, who coordinate the Just Teach One project.
