Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion
…ith these scholars in mind, and hope that if they read the book they will enjoy it. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I hope that my book can serve as a way to amplify the words and ideas of the women and men who made antebellum black newspapers. So there’s certainly an educational function to the book, in that I’m introducing readers to a group of massively influential, but largely overlooked, black editors. An…
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