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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 |