A Textual Network: Recontextualizing Amy Matilda Cassey’s Friendship Album for a Digital Readership
A Bibliography Compiled by Lara Cohen, McCleary Philbin, Richard Scott and Zac Wunrow
Works Consulted
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Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City. New Haven: Yale UP, 2008.
Finseth, Ian Frederick. Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860. Athens: University of Georgia, 2009.
Foreman, P. Gabrielle. Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2009.
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Jackson, Leon. The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2008.
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Willson, Joseph. The Elite of Our People: Sketches of Black Upper-class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia. Ed. Julie Winch. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2000.
Winch, Julie. A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.
Winch, Julie. Philadelphia’s Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1988.
Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1992.
Zeiger, Melissa F. Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1997.