Early African Caribbean newspapers as archipelagic media in the emancipation age / by Johanna Seibert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seibert, Johanna, author.

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Studies in periodical cultures ; v.3.

Studies in periodical cultures ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean newspapers--History--19th century.

Caribbean newspapers.

Black newspapers--Antigua and Barbuda--Saint John's--History--19th century.

Black newspapers.

Black newspapers--Jamaica--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Antigua and Barbuda--Saint John's--History.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Jamaica--History.

Free Black people--Antigua and Barbuda--Saint John's--Social conditions--19th century.

Free Black people.

Free Black people--Jamaica--Social conditions--19th century.

Saint John's (Antigua and Barbuda)--Social conditions--19th century.

Saint John's (Antigua and Barbuda).

Jamaica--Social conditions--19th century.

Jamaica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

Illustrations

Maps

Figures

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 of Names and Subjects

Index of Sources

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Seibert, Johanna. Early African Caribbean newspapers as archipelagic media in the emancipation age

ISBN:

9789004525283

9004525289

Publisher Number:

40031483820

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