Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World

Nele Sawallisch, Johanna Seibert (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

140 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-99938-8 (ISBN)

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This book pays respect to different embodiments of Black editors in the Atlantic world, highlighting that from North to South America to Great Britain they occupied and promoted multifaceted roles, agendas, and poieses during a transformative period in the Atlantic world, the long nineteenth century. Black people's contributions to print ventures have been constant and manifold across the Atlantic world during the past centuries. If enslavement and forced labor dictated their involvement in many instances, Black people from early on also adopted the roles of authors, contributors, subscribers, and, notably, editors of different print materials. Through careful historical analysis, this volume illuminates the diverse strategies, networks, and intellectual contributions of these editors who navigated complex social and political landscapes while advancing their communities through print culture.

Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World is essential reading for scholars and students of Black Atlantic studies, print culture history, nineteenth-century literature, journalism history, and those interested in the intellectual and cultural contributions of Black communities during a pivotal era of global transformation.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Nele Sawallisch is Assistant Professor for American Literature at Trier University, Germany. Her first book, Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century was published with transcript in 2018. She has published on Canadian and US-American Literatures, Black literary history, the slave narrative, gendered borders, and print cultures. Johanna Seibert earned her PhD in American Studies at the Obama Institute at the University of Mainz, Germany. In 2022, she published her book Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age with Brill. She now works as a strategist with a focus on science diplomacy at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Introduction: Atlantic interventions of Black editorship in the long nineteenth century 1. “After you, my dear Alphonse;” Or, when politeness and good intentions are not enough 2. How to become an antiracist newspaper in the 1890s Black Atlantic: The ethical imperative of recirculation in Celestine Edwards’s Fraternity 3. “Leave that slavery-cursed republic”: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Black feminist nationalism, 1852–1874 4. Haiti and the United States: In Black print 5. “It is to a great extent, a new book”: Josiah Henson, John Lobb, and the challenges of white editorship of Black texts 6. Frederico Baptista de Souza: the formation of a Black editor in the South Atlantic 7. Subversive editing: Rebellious reprints in Freedom’s Journal 8. Trajectories in Black Atlantic print culture studies: A virtual roundtable

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-99938-1 / 1032999381
ISBN-13	978-1-032-99938-8 / 9781032999388
Zustand	Neuware