Early African American Print Culture

Introduction: Early African American Print Culture
-Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein

PART I. VECTORS OF MOVEMENT
Chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Significance of the Book
-Joseph Rezek
Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History
-Joanna Brooks
Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry
-Meredith L. McGill
Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West
-Eric Gardner

PART II. RACIALIZATION AND IDENTITY PRODUCTION
Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History
-Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic
-Corey Capers
Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: The Life and Narrative of William Grimes
-Susanna Ashton
Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print
-Jonathan Senchyne

PART III. ADAPTATION, CITATION, DEPLOYMENT
Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: The Practice of Citation in Clotel
-Lara Langer Cohen
Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Them: African American Deployments of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
-Daniel Hack
Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar's Daughter
-Holly Jackson
Chapter 12. "Photographs to Answer Our Purposes": Representations of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture
-Dalila Scruggs
Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture
-Susan Gillman

PART IV. PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles
-Lloyd Pratt
Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions
-Derrick R. Spires
Chapter 16. "Keep It Before the People": The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism
-Radiclani Clytus
Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Performance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature
-Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments