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Acknowledgments vii I • Introduction 1 1. Wrappings A Methodological Introduction 3 2. Contesting the Pearl Whiteness, Blackness, and the Possession of American Poetry 33 II • Antebellum 61 3. “Skins May Differ” Women’s Republicanism and the Poetics of Abolitionism 63 4. The Mummy Returns Humor, Kinship, and the Bindings of Print 86 III • Postbellum 101 5. Looking in the Glass Sarah Piatt’s Poetics of Play and Loss 103 6. We Women Radicals Frances Harper’s Poetics of Racial Formation 127 7. What One Is Not Was Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert’s Poetics of Self-Reconstruction 146 8. Critical Positions in Racial Modernity An Approach to Teaching 168 IV • Other Times: Childhood and Nonsense 183 9. The Containment of Childhood Reproducing Consumption in American Children’s Verse 185 Contents Appendix: Poems Cited 235 Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, The Kneeling Slave 237 Sarah Louise Forten, An Appeal to Women 237 Frances E. W. Harper, The Slave Mother 238 Hannah Flagg Gould, The Slave Mother’s Prayer 240 Hannah Flagg Gould, The Child’s Address to the Kentucky Mummy 241 Sarah Piatt, A Child’s Party (in Kentucky, A.D. 185_) 242 Frances Harper, Aunt Chloe 246 Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert, Loew’s Bridge, a Broadway Idyl 260 Anonymous, The Three Little Kittens 280 Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary’s Lamb 281 Mary Mapes Dodge, Shepherd John 282 Mary Mapes Dodge, The Way to Do It 283 Hannah Flagg Gould, Apprehension 284 Mary Mapes Dodge, The Wooden Horse 285 Hannah Flagg Gould, The Butterfly’s Dream 286 Mary Mapes Dodge, The Mayor of Scuttleton 288 Lizzie W. Champney, How Persimmons Took Cah ob der Baby 288 Notes 293 Works Cited 311 Index 321 vi Contents ...

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