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 official African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper (a periodical of national reach and scope among free African Americans), 'Black Print Unbound' is thus 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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2015)
