Additional Resources
Online Resources
African American Newspapers, Series 1
Archive.org: Freedom's Journal Vol. 1, Freedom's Journal Vol. 2
Black Press Research Collective
The Colored Conventions Project
Critical Race & Digital Studies Syllabus
The Digital Colored American Magazine
Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection
HathiTrust: The Anglo-African Magazine Vol. 1
Historical NYC Maps and Atlases, New York Public Library
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century, New York Public Library
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Texts
Erica L. Ball, To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012)
Frances Smith Foster, "A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture", American Literary History, 17 (2005), pp. 714-740
Elizabeth McHenry, Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002)
I. Garland Penn, The African American Press and Its Editors (Springfield: Willey & Co., 1891)
Derrick R. Spires, The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)