Writing history from the margins : African Americans and the quest for freedom / edited by Claire Parfait, Helene Le Dantec-Lowry, and Claire Bourhis-Mariotti.
Introduction / Claire Parfait, Helene Le Dantec-Lowry, and Claire Bourhis-Mariotti -- Part I. New perspectives on African American history -- "The grandest book ever written" : advertising Joseph T. Wilson's Black Phalanx (1888) / Claire Parfait -- A race against obscurity : Merl R. Eppse and the Negro, too, in American history / Cheryl Knott -- Abolitionist Black histories and historians in Massachusetts petitions / Nicole Topich -- From the margins with a legacy of agency in Africanity : an encyclopedic idea / Michael Benjamin -- Part II. Material and visual culture and the writing of history -- Work, class, and respectability in Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory, or, A Monitor for Private Families (Boston, 1827) / Helene Le Dantec-Lowry -- Expressions of self and belonging : enslaved people and race-based fashion in the antebellum U.S. South / Katie Knowles -- African American quilts : color, creation, (counter)culture / Geraldine Chouard -- Freeman Murray and the art of social justice / James Smalls -- Romare Bearden : the making of a Black political cartoonist / Amy Kirschke.
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