For poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, as for the Black Romantics, history is the repetition of anti-Black violence that has yet to be abolished.

Manu Samriti Chander
Manu Samriti Chander is associate professor of English at Rutgers University–Newark and the author of Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century (Bucknell University Press, 2017).