ABSTRACT
This synthetic concluding chapter identifies the major themes that emerge from the essays as a group and their collective contribution to advancing the scholarship on forms of slave testimony that do not conform to the genre established by the classic slave autobiographies produced in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglophone Atlantic. It considers the role of archival and judicial regimes in recording and preserving the voices of the enslaved, the evolution of notions of justice and freedom revealed in slave testimonies, disjunctions and continuities in the phenomenon across time and space, and the role that surviving slave testimonies play in the lives of those descended from those who produced them.
