Black Print Unbound

<em>Black Print Unbound </em>explores the development of the <em>Christian Recorder</em> 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 <em>Black Print Unbound</em> 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.<br>