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.
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