Black Print and Organizing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Black Print and Organizing in the Long Nineteenth Century offers new and innovative studies of Black print culture, social movements, and Black organizing collectives to tell fuller stories about the actors, ideas, and actions influencing practices of Black freedom and their dissemination across generations.
Series Editors: P. Gabrielle Foreman Department of English and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University
Shirley Moody Turner Department of English and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University
Derrick Spires Department of English University of Delaware
Staff Editorial Contact: Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief wbiggins@upenn.edu
The series is affiliated with the Center For Black Digital Research (#DigBlk) at Pennsylvania State University.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator and the first Black woman to edit a newspaper, the Provincial Freeman, in North America. Insensible of Boundaries is the first collection of essays dedicated to Shadd Cary’s cultural significance and intellectual contributions.
Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers offers a detailed history of the newspapers that Frederick Douglass edited during his lifetime and highlights how his periodicals were collective productions. Benjamin Fagan places Black organizing at the center of the story of Douglass’s newspapers, and his newspapers at the center of the story of Black organizing.
