Early African American print culture

Introduction: Early African American print culture / Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein

Pt. 1. Vectors of movement. The print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the cultural significance of the book / Joseph Rezek ; The unfortunates: what the life spans of early Black books tell us about book history / Joanna Brooks ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the circuits of abolitionist poetry / Meredith L. McGill ; Early African American print culture and the American West / Eric Gardner

Pt. 2. Racialization and identity production. Apprehending early African American literary history / Jeannine Marie DeLombard ; Black voices, white print: racial practice, print publicity, and order in the early American republic / Corey Capers ; Slavery, imprinted: the life and narrative of William Grimes / Susanna Ashton ; Bottles of ink and reams of paper: Clotel, racialization, and the material culture of print / Jonathan Senchyne

Pt. 3. Adaptation, citation, deployment. Notes from the state of Saint Domingue: the practice of citation in Clotel / Lara Langer Cohen ; The canon in front of them: African American deployments of "The charge of the light brigade" / Daniel Hack ; Another long bridge: reproduction and reversion in Hagar's daughter / Holly Jackson ; "Photographs to answer our purposes": representations of the Liberian landscape in colonization print culture / Dalila Scruggs ; Networking Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in early African American print culture / Susan Gillman

Pt. 4. Public performances. The lyric public of Les Cenelles / Lloyd Pratt ; Imagining a state of fellow citizens: early African American politics of publicity in the Black state conventions / Derrick R. Spires ; "Keep it before the people": the pictorialization of American abolitionism / Radiclani Clytus ; John Marrant blows the French horn: print, performance, and the making of publics in early African American literature / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon.