White houses and Black print -- Part 1. "Our church organ" : toward a cultural and material history of the early Recorder. "Dense darkness" : recovering the Recorder's history ; From Pine Street to the nation (and back again) : the business of the Recorder ; "Their friends at home with papers" : Recorder subscriptions and subscribers -- Part 2. "Would not such a narration be worth reading?" : the Christian recorder and African American literary history. "We are in the world" : reading the Recorder in the Civil War era ; "So let us hear from all the brethren" : the Christian recorder and correspondence ; "That wished home of peace" : the personal and the political in Christian recorder elegies ; Black (women's) fortunes and The curse of caste
Summary:
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. -- from back cover.
Topic:
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism Search this
American literature--African American authors--Publishing--History Search this
Literature publishing--Political aspects--History Search this
American literature--History and criticism Search this
