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Black Print Unbound Explores The Development Of The Christian Recorder During And Just After The American Civil War. As A Study Of The African Methodist Episcopal Church Newspaper - And So Of A Periodical With National Reach Among Free African Americans - Black Print Unbound Is At Once A Massive Recovery Effort Of A Publication By African Americans For African Americans, A Consideration Of The Nexus Of African Americanist Inquiry And Print Culture Studies, And An Intervention In The Study Of Literatures Of The Civil War, Faith Communities, And Periodicals. -- From Back Cover. 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 Subscriptions 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. Eric Gardner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.