"forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality
Journal Article (Review;Journal)
Friendship albums, blank volumes with decorative covers, emerged around 1825 as part of a growing market of women's print culture. Sentimentalism, the chief vocabulary of the friendship album genre, targeted white women consumers and largely ignored black women. However, freeborn African Americans rigorously engaged sentimental literature in the pages of the friendship album, recasting this artifact as a specimen of antebellum black print culture. This essay explores the production of African American friendship albums and examines artistic and literary contributions by freeborn black women writers.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Cobb, JN
Published Date
- September 1, 2015
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 40 / 3
Start / End Page
- 28 - 46
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1946-3170
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0163-755X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1093/melus/mlv020
Citation Source
- Scopus