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Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work
- Author(s):
- Jonathan Senchyne (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- LLC 19th-Century American, LLC African American Forum, LLC Early American, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography, TM Libraries and Research
- Subject(s):
- Periodicals--Study and teaching, Slavery, Books, History
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- African American print culture, information labor, Periodical studies, Book history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/sw51-wq05
- Abstract:
- From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes the exclusion of enslaved people from the study of the history of the book, and theorizes a method of reading non-alphabetic marks in the material texts through which we encounter the presence of figures like Primus Fowle.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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