Black print unbound : The Christian Recorder, African American literature, and periodical culture

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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. Content: Chapter 1 White Houses and Black Print Part I: "Our Church Organ": Toward a Cultural and Material History of the Early Recorder Chapter 2 "Dense Darkness": Recovering the Recorder's History Chapter 3 From Pine Street to the Nation (and Back Again): The Business of the Recorder Chapter 4 "Their Friends at Home with Papers": Recorder Subscription and Subscribers Part II: "Would not such a narration be worth reading?": The Christian Recorder and African American Literary History Chapter 5 "We are in the world": Reading the Recorder in the Civil War Era Chapter 6 "So Let Us Hear from All the Brethren": The Christian Recorder and Correspondence Chapter 7 "That Wished Home of Peace": The Personal and the Political in Christian Recorder Elegies Chapter 8 Black (Women's) Fortunes and The Curse of Caste Works Cited Index