Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World

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