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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction. Early African American Print Culture 1
  4. PART I. Vectors of Movement
  5. chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Signifi cance of the Book 19
  6. Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History 40
  7. Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry 53
  8. Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West 75
  9. PART II. Racialization and Identity Production
  10. Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History 93
  11. Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic 107
  12. Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: Th e Life and Narrative of William Grimes 127
  13. Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print 140
  14. PART III. Adaptation, Citation, Deployment
  15. Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: Th e Practice of Citation in Clotel 161
  16. Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Th em: African American Deployments of “Th e Charge of the Light Brigade” 178
  17. Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar’s Daughter 192
  18. Chapter 12. “Photographs to Answer Our Purposes”: Repre sen ta tions of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture 203
  19. Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture 231
  20. PART IV. Public Performances
  21. Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles 253
  22. Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions 274
  23. Chapter 16. “Keep It Before the People”: The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism 290
  24. Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Per for mance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature 318
  25. Notes 341
  26. Contributors 405
  27. Index 409
  28. Acknowledgments 421
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction. Early African American Print Culture 1
  4. PART I. Vectors of Movement
  5. chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Signifi cance of the Book 19
  6. Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History 40
  7. Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry 53
  8. Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West 75
  9. PART II. Racialization and Identity Production
  10. Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History 93
  11. Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic 107
  12. Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: Th e Life and Narrative of William Grimes 127
  13. Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print 140
  14. PART III. Adaptation, Citation, Deployment
  15. Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: Th e Practice of Citation in Clotel 161
  16. Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Th em: African American Deployments of “Th e Charge of the Light Brigade” 178
  17. Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar’s Daughter 192
  18. Chapter 12. “Photographs to Answer Our Purposes”: Repre sen ta tions of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture 203
  19. Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture 231
  20. PART IV. Public Performances
  21. Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles 253
  22. Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions 274
  23. Chapter 16. “Keep It Before the People”: The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism 290
  24. Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Per for mance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature 318
  25. Notes 341
  26. Contributors 405
  27. Index 409
  28. Acknowledgments 421
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