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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.
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 30, 2020 · What is so remarkable about this story is that it is an anti-slavery narrative from the early 1800s which also contains America’s first vampire, who is Black.
The Black Vampyre lets its readers have just enough superstition to reveal some of the ground truths of the Atlantic world, but not so much that they might actually overturn the structures that made those enchantments necessary.
Oct 20, 2020 · Andrew Barger’s introduction to “The Black Vampyre” hails it as “the first short story that advocates ‘emancipation of the Negroes’… fourteen years before Lydia Child published An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, which is widely considered the first anti-slavery book”.
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.
Oct 27, 2022 · There is a long tradition of black vampires that goes back centuries. These stories subvert the vampire mythos traditionally dominated by white men of high social status.
