This talk will explore the politics of fashion and dress for enslaved and free Black people in 18th and 19th-century Europe and America. Beginning with the phenomenon of dandified “luxury slaves” in 18th-century London, Miller will discuss the way in which the enslaved and free in America used fancy dress and fashion to both visualize freedom and critique contemporary hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This talk is based on Miller’s book Slaves to Fashion, a cultural history of Black dandyism, which uses print culture, colonial histories, literature, and theater to tell the Black dandy’s story.