Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Biographical Note ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction. “Who Am I Now?” Toward a Mary Ann Shadd Cary Renaissance 1
7. Prelude
8. Chapter 1. The Struggle to Emerge: What Black (Canadian) Studies Might Mean; or, The Return of Mary Ann Shadd Cary 19
9. Part I. “To Set Forth the Advantages of Residence in a Country”: Black Feminist Geographies
10. Chapter 2. Two Mary Carys in Canada West 37
11. Chapter 3. Mary Ann Shadd Cary in Mexico 57
12. Chapter 4. Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s Black Soil Ecology 77
13. Part II. “To Display Her Powers”: Black Theater, Sound, and Performance
14. Chapter 5. Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Her Life and Legacy: A Production 97
15. Chapter 6. “A Greater Compass of Voice”: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Mary Ann Shadd Cary Navigate Black Performance 122
16. Part III. “Led as by Inspiration”: Black Feminist Activism
17. Chapter 7. Plotting New Gardens: The Black Feminist Roots of Community-Building in A Plea for Emigration 147
18. Chapter 8. “They Would Agitate for Independence of Thought and Action”: Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s Black Feminist Organizing in Washington, D.C., 1867–93 165
19. Part IV. “Subjects Better Understood, and Within Her Sphere”: Black Digital Humanities
20. Chapter 9. Dimensions of Scale: Invisible Labor, Editorial Work, and the Future of Quantitative Literary Studies 185
21. Chapter 10. Parsing the Special Characters of African American Print Culture: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the * Limits of Search 210
22. Chapter 11. Mapping Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Using Bibliographic Analysis to Uncover Labor 229
23. List of Contributors 247
24. Index 251