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Alexander, Leslie. African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784–1861. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Barbara McCaskill. “Beyond Recovery: A Process Approach to Research on Women in Early African American Print Cultures.” Legacy 33, no. 1 (2016): 12. https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.33.1.0012.

Benjamin Fagan. “Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading.” Legacy 33, no. 1 (2016): 19. https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.33.1.0019.

Brooks, J. “Our Phillis, Ourselves.” American Literature 82, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-067.

Bruce, Dickson D. Origins of African American Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001.

Bynum, Tara. “Why I Heart David Walker.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 4, no. 1 (2016): 11–17. https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0006.

Callahan, Monique-Adelle. “Frances Harper and the Poetry of Reconstruction.” In A History Of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry, edited by Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides, 329–44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316018767.021.

Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2011.

Clytus, Radiclani. “Visualizing in Black Print: The Brooklyn Correspondence of William J. Wilson Aka ‘Ethiop.’” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 6, no. 1 (2018): 29–66. https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2018.0006.

Cobb, Jasmine Nichole, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1800-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632003.

Dinius, Marcy J. “‘Look!! Look!!! At This!!!!’: The Radical Typography of David Walker’s Appeal.” PMLA 126, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 55–72. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.1.55.

Dorsey, Peter A. “To ‘Corroborate Our Own Claim’: Public Positioning and the Slavery Metaphor in Revolutionary America.” American Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2003): 353–86. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2003.0023.

Dunbar, Eve, and Ayesha K. Hardison, eds. African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560665.

Fagan, Benjamin, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108386067.

Foreman, P. Gabrielle, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, eds. The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Gardner, Eric, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1865-1880: Black Reconstructions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108551724.

Ernest, John. Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

———. Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Fagan, Benjamin. The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Fielder, Brigitte, and Jonathan Senchyne, eds. Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.

Foreman, P. Gabrielle. Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

———. “A Riff, A Call, and A Response: Reframing the Problem That Led to Our Being Tokens in Ethnic and Gender Studies; or, Where Are We Going Anyway and with Whom Will We Travel?” Legacy 30, no. 2 (2013): 306. https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.30.2.0306.

Foster, Frances Smith. “Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892.” In Blacks in the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Foster, Frances Smith, and Kim D. Green. “Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature.” In A Companion to African American Literature, edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, 45–58. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch3.

Gardner, Eric, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1865-1880: Black Reconstructions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108551724.

Gardner, Eric. “African American Literary Reconstructions and the ‘Propaganda of History.’” American Literary History 30, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 429–49. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajy016.

———. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2010.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hill, Lena M. Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Hutchinson, George, and John K. Young. Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850. University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Jarrett, Gene Andrew. Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Jones, Jr. Douglas A. The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014.

Joseph Rezek. “The Orations on the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Uses of Print in the Early Black Atlantic.” Early American Literature 45, no. 3 (2010): 655–82. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2010.0033.

Joyce, Donald F. Black Book Publishers in the United States: A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817–1990. New York: Greenwood, 1991.

Leon Jackson. “The Talking Book and the Talking Book Historian: African American Cultures of Print—The State of the Discipline.” Book History 13, no. 1 (2010): 251–308. https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2010.0014.

McCaskill, Barbara, and Caroline Gebhard, eds. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877–1919. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African-American Literary Societies. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2002.

Moody-Turner, Shirley, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108380669.

Murison, Justine S., ed. American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566872.

Thaggert, Miriam, and Rachel Farebrother, eds. African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992039.

Thomas, Rhondda Robinson, ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1750-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108860864.

Zackodnik, Teresa C., ed. African American Literature in Transition, 1850-1865. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108647847.