Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age

Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age

Seibert, Johanna

Brill

11/2022

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Inglês

9789004512450

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Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

List of Illustrations



Introduction: Mediating Emancipation: The Weekly Register and The Jamaica Watchman as Archipelagic Agents of Communication

?1 Imaginations of Early Caribbean Newspapers

?2 Periodical Studies and the Archipelago

?3 Sites of Editorship and Periodical Materiality



1 The Business of Communication

?1 Newspaper Markets under Archipelagic Conditions

?2 Island Communities and the Local Ties of the Register

?3 The Watchman and the Periodical Infrastructures of White Humanitarianism



2 Formats and Layouts in Motion

?1 Materiality and the Insignificant Significance of the Register

?2 The Transformative Designs of the Watchman

?3 Newspaper Formats and Archive Building



3 Personhood and the Poetry Column

?1 Poems and Periodical Cultures in the British Caribbean

?2 Christmas Book Poems

?3 Concubinage and Sentimental Verse

?4 West Indian Worthies: Richard Hill and John Boyd

?5 Satirical Interjections



4 Recording the Cycles of Black Rebellion

?1 Miscellanies of Haiti: "Madame Christophe" and the Logic of the Final Page

?2 Sketching Independent Haiti: Richard Hill's Multi-Mode Auto-Ethnography

?3 Editorial Voices on the Turner Rebellion

?4 Corresponding Samuel Sharpe's Confessions



Conclusion: The Trajectories of African Caribbean Periodicals

Works Cited

Index
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Antigua; Edward Jordon; Henry Loving; Robert Osborn; Watchman; Weekly Register; abolition; archipelagic studies; civil rights; free people of color; media studies; periodical studies; postcolonial studies; slavery