Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

by EricGardner (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $62.41

  Recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Elisha Weaver who have been left off maps drawn by historians and literary critics. Individual chapters restore to consideration black literary locations in antebellum St. Louis, antebellum Indiana, Reconstruction-era San Francisco, and several sites tied to the Philadelphia-based Recorder during and after the Civil War.