Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press : Library Company of Philadelphia, c2012.
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Part of the series Material texts;Material texts.
Notes:

• 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.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-404) and index.

Subjects:

• Literature publishing — United States — History — 18th century.
• Literature publishing — United States — History — 19th century.
• Authors and publishers — United States — History — 18th century.
• Authors and publishers — United States — History — 19th century.
• American literature — African American authors — History and criticism.

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