This book pays respect to different embodiments of Black editors in the Atlantic world, highlighting that from North to South America to Great Britain they occupied and promoted multifaceted roles, agendas, and poieses during a transformative period in the Atlantic world, the long nineteenth century. Black people’s contributions to print ventures have been constant and manifold across the Atlantic world during the past centuries. If enslavement and forced labor dictated their involvement in many instances, Black people from early on also adopted the roles of authors, contributors, subscribers, and, notably, editors of different print materials. Through careful historical analysis, this volume illuminates the diverse strategies, networks, and intellectual contributions of these editors who navigated complex social and political landscapes while advancing their communities through print culture.

Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World is essential reading for scholars and students of Black Atlantic studies, print culture history, nineteenth-century literature, journalism history, and those interested in the intellectual and cultural contributions of Black communities during a pivotal era of global transformation.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Author Biography

Nele Sawallisch is Assistant Professor for American Literature at Trier University, Germany. Her first book, Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century was published with transcript in 2018. She has published on Canadian and US-American Literatures, Black literary history, the slave narrative, gendered borders, and print cultures.

Johanna Seibert earned her PhD in American Studies at the Obama Institute at the University of Mainz. In 2022, she published her book Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media with Brill. She now works as a strategist with a focus on science diplomacy at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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