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Acknowledgments In the process of anthologizing T. Thomas Fortune’s work, I have accrued a number of debts. My thanks to Ernest Allen Jr. and John H. Bracey Jr. for encouraging me to collect Fortune’s writings in the first place and for their sage advice and counsel along the way. I would also like to thank my professors and colleagues over the years at the University of Massachusetts. Reading, researching, and writing about African American history is a labor of love that became so much easier when I entered the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts in the fall of 1998. My six years in the department were enlightening and inspiring. The faculty, including Esther M. A. Terry, Ernest Allen Jr., John H. Bracey Jr., Steve Tracy, Manisha Sinha, James Smethurst, Michael Thelwell, William Strickland, and Robert Paul Wolff, have all been supportive of my work and have been willing to have conversations with me on any subject of black history and literature at the drop of a hat. It was truly a mentoring environment. An ever-growing circle of vigorous intellectuals has inspired me to become a better scholar and writer through their conversations and examples. I would particularly like to thank David W. Blight for his assistance and conversations throughout the years. I wish also to thank those who have lent their support and advice about T. Thomas Fortune over the course of my work on this anthology. I want especially to thank Fitzhugh Brundage, James Danky, Mark Elliott, Jeffery B. Ferguson, Glenda Gilmore, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., David A. Goldberg, Darlene Clark Hine, John Higginson, Jonathon Holloway, Fred Morton, David Roediger, John David Smith, and David W. Wills. My editors at the University Press of Florida, Jacqueline Kinghorn Brown and Eli Bortz and his assistant, Heather Romans, have provided careful guidance through the entire process of preparing this anthology. I thank them for their assistance and patience. I would also like to thank Meredith Morris-Babb for her early support for the project, and Derek Krissoff, who is no longer with the Press, for his early support and assistance. In addition I thank early readers of the anthology, who gave equal doses of criticism and encouragement. The bulk of the revisions for this anthology were completed while I was a Cassius Marcellus Clay Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Yale University. I would like to thank the Clay family for their generous financial support that aided me in researching and compiling this collection . I am also very grateful to the Department of History’s faculty and staff for their support. In addition I thank the staff and associates of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition for supporting and offering critical insight on my scholarship during my time at Yale. My debt of gratitude also goes to my extended family, the Alexanders, Campbells, and Farrells, for their support and faith over the years. The most important acknowledgment, however, goes to Kelly, my lovely wife: whatever I do is made possible by you. I would like to thank you for the steadfast support, sustaining love, and patience you have given me over the years. I also thank you for your willingness to “look this over one more time.” Your readings and critiques of this anthology and anything I write improve my work beyond imagination. I thank you for everything. With much love, this book is for you.  / Acknowledgments ...

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