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 abolitioni...

Bloomsbury presents The End of Supplication: The Invention of Prostrate Blackness as a Replacement for the Maroon by Yannick Giovanni Marshall, read by Kenneth MedfordThe 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...