Early African American Print Culture

Contents: 

• Introduction: Early African American print culture /; Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein 

pt. 1. Vectors of movement. 

• The print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the cultural significance of the book /; Joseph Rezek
• The unfortunates: what the life spans of early Black books tell us about book history /; Joanna Brooks
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the circuits of abolitionist poetry /; Meredith L. McGill
• Early African American print culture and the American West /; Eric Gardner 

pt. 2. Racialization and identity production. 

• Apprehending early African American literary history /; Jeannine Marie DeLombard
• Black voices, white print: racial practice, print publicity, and order in the early American republic /; Corey Capers
• Slavery, imprinted: the life and narrative of William Grimes /; Susanna Ashton
• Bottles of ink and reams of paper: Clotel, racialization, and the material culture of print /; Jonathan Senchyne 

pt. 3. Adaptation, citation, deployment. Notes from the state of Saint Domingue: the practice of citation in Clotel /; Lara Langer Cohen 

• The canon in front of them: African American deployments of "The charge of the light brigade" /; Daniel Hack
• Another long bridge: reproduction and reversion in Hagar's daughter /; Holly Jackson
• "Photographs to answer our purposes": representations of the Liberian landscape in colonization print culture /; Dalila Scruggs
• Networking Uncle Tom's Cabin;; or, Hyper Stowe in early African American print culture /; Susan Gillman 

pt. 4. Public performances. 

• The lyric public of Les Cenelles /; Lloyd Pratt
• Imagining a state of fellow citizens: early African American politics of publicity in the Black state conventions /; Derrick R. Spires
• "Keep it before the people": the pictorialization of American abolitionism /; Radiclani Clytus
• John Marrant blows the French horn: print, performance, and the making of publics in early African American literature /; Elizabeth Maddock Dillon