Beschreibung:
Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper and so of a periodical with national reach among free African Americans, Black Print Unbound is at once a massive recovery effort of a publication by African Americans for African Americans, a consideration of the nexus of African Americanist inquiry and print culture studies, and an intervention in the study of literatures of the Civil War, faith communities, and periodicals.
Chapter 1White Houses and Black PrintPart I:"Our Church Organ": Toward a Cultural and Material History of the Early RecorderChapter 2"Dense Darkness": Recovering the Recorder's HistoryChapter 3From Pine Street to the Nation (and Back Again): The Business of the RecorderChapter 4"Their Friends at Home with Papers": Recorder Subscription and SubscribersPart II:"Would not such a narration be worth reading?": The Christian Recorder and African American Literary HistoryChapter 5"We are in the world": Reading the Recorder in the Civil War EraChapter 6"So Let Us Hear from All the Brethren": The Christian Recorder and CorrespondenceChapter 7"That Wished Home of Peace": The Personal and the Political in Christian Recorder ElegiesChapter 8Black (Women's) Fortunes and The Curse of CasteWorks CitedIndex