Author:
Gardner, Eric.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxi, 329 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Note:Includes index.
Note:White houses and Black print -- Part 1. "Our church organ": toward a cultural and material history of the early recorder -- "Dense darkness": recovering the Recorder's history -- From Pine Street to the nation (and back again): the business of the Recorder -- "Their friends at home with papers": Recorder subscription and subscribers -- Part 2. "Would not such a narration be worth reading?": the Christian recorder and African American literary history -- "We are in the world": reading the recorder in the Civil War era -- "So let us hear from all the brethren": the Christian recorder and correspondence -- "That wished home of peace": the personal and the political in Christian recorder elegies -- Black (women's) fortunes and the curse of caste.