Unexpected places : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature / Eric Gardner.
In January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder, John Mifflin Brown wrote to the paper praising its editor Elisha Weaver: "It takes our Western boys to lead off. I am. proud of your paper.". Weaver...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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| Summary: | In January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder, John Mifflin Brown wrote to the paper praising its editor Elisha Weaver: "It takes our Western boys to lead off. I am. proud of your paper.". Weaver's story, though, like many of the contributions of early black literature outside of the urban Northeast, has almost vanished. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Weaver who have been left off m. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 258 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604732849 1604732849 1282485121 9781282485129 9786612485121 6612485124 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |