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index abolitionist iconography, 291, 292, 294–97, 301–17 abolitionist lecture circuit, 50, 56, 57, 62–64, 66–68, 70, 74, 140, 148, 317 abolitionist publishing, 51, 64, 66, 132, 135, 138, 166, 206, 305. See also newspapers Adams, John Quincy, 83, 316 adaptation, 15, 231–48 address: modes of, 12, 36, 54, 62–64, 66, 67, 70, 73–74, 257, 263–69; second-person, 317; songs as, 336. See also first-person narrative voice advertisements, 20, 22, 24, 144, 297, 333–34 aesthetics, 4, 34, 183, 214, 292; in African American culture, 325; experience, 23; judgment, 22, 25, 33, 36, 38, 282; and politics, 93, 97, 126, 322–23, 326; of slave narratives, 97 affiliation: voluntary forms of, 12, 259, 268–69, 287. See also kinship African American literature, 1, 2, 3, 14, 16, 96, 99; Anglophone bias of, 268; and the author function, 162; institutionalization of, 4–5, 93; links between literacy and freedom, 140–41, 162; neglect of Western writing, 76; penal origins of, 94–99 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1, 49, 50, 56, 63, 77, 84, 87, 98, 190, 222 African Repository, 209, 211–13 Afrocentrism, 259 Aldridge, William, 43, 46, 337 allegory, 116, 236, 352–53n26 Allen, Richard, 24, 49, 50, 98, 112, 366n6 alphabet, 141, 290 amalgamation, 314–16 The American Anti-Slavery Society, 13, 140, 291, 292, 296, 297, 300–302, 305–8, 311–12, 316, 317; 1835 pamphlet campaign of, 291, 305–6, 316 American Colonization Society, 203, 206–9, 211, 214, 217–19, 221–22, 226, 228, 230 American West. See geography Anderson, Benedict, 14 Anderson, Peter, 79–81 Andrews, William L., 94, 97, 128, 140, 162, 163 Anelay, Henry, 152–56 anthologies, 12, 62, 89, 253, 263 Anti-Slavery Almanac, 206 Anti-Slavery Record, 301, 306, 307, 309, 310 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (Walker), 164, 277, 287 Armistead, Wilson, 303–6 assemblages, 166, 327, 329, 331, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338 atavism, 198, 381n24 Attucks, Crispus, 70–71, 168 authorship, 1, 14–16, 24, 25, 32, 38, 56–57, 101, 136, 162, 186; corporate, 283; entrepreneurial, 50, 51; versus editing, 163, 166–67, 337; women’s, 82 autobiography, 127. See also slave narratives B., Valcour, 267, 270 Ball, Charles, 304 Banneker, Benjamin, 24, 86 Baraka, Amiri, 179 Barringer, Paul Brandon, 194 Beard, John Relly, 161, 164–65, 169–74, 176 Bell, James Madison, 186–89 Bell, Philip A., 76, 81, 82–89, 181, 183, 187 Benjamin, Walter, 176 Béranger, Pierre-Jean de, 272 Bible, 41, 43, 106, 137, 144, 297, 301, 305, 312, 336, 337 bibliographic scholarship, 3, 16, 55, 349n9. See also book history 410 index black Atlantic, 9, 22, 38–39, 43, 93, 105, 255, 257, 324; in relation to the American West, 89. See also The Black Atlantic (Gilroy); geography The Black Atlantic (Gilroy), 93, 94, 97 black press, 1, 9, 40, 76, 77, 185, 189, 275; of San Francisco, 75, 82, 87, 88. See also newspapers “The Black Regiment” (Boker), 184–87 black state conventions, 5, 274–89; in California, 78–80; in New York, 276, 277–84, 285; in Pennsylvania, 276, 277, 284–89 black West, 76–77. See also geography Blackwood, Sarah, 3 Bobalition, 107–26 Boise, Louis, 267 Boker, George Henry, 184–85, 188–89 book, 23, 25; bindings of, 8, 41, 127; as codex, 23, 144, 265; cultural significance of, 24, 38, 142; heft of, 9, 23, 75; margins in, 25–28; physical properties of, 22–23, 41, 265, 270; printed in black and white, 145; shorter forms of, 40, 48, 51; size of, 25. See also format book history, 2, 3, 9, 42, 53, 101–2, 338; dialogue with African American studies, 89, 346n1; and media history, 22, 38–39, 53–55; privileging of the book, 33, 75–76; in relation to social movements, 14, 48, 50–52, 138; versus politics of individualism , 338 books: life spans of, 41–42, 51–52 book trade, 9, 20, 43, 45, 51, 52, 150. See also print trade Boston Evening-Post, 19, 20, 25 Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 297 Bourdieu, Pierre, 182 Brickhouse, Anna, 3 Brief Account of the Life, and Abominable Thefts of the Notorious Isaac Frasier, 103–4 Brigham, Clarence S., 120 British Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 294–95 broadsides, 25, 107, 109, 113, 116, 120–21 Brooke, John L., 100 Brooks, Daphne A., 4, 338 Brooks, Joanna, 5, 138 Brooks, Kristina, 200 Brown, Lois, 193, 344n5 Brown...
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