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"forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality

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Cobb, JN
Published in: MELUS
September 1, 2015

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.

Duke Scholars

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MELUS

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1946-3170

ISSN

0163-755X

Publication Date

September 1, 2015

Volume

40

Issue

3

Start / End Page

28 / 46

Related Subject Headings

  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 2005 Literary Studies
 

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Cobb, J. N. (2015). "forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality. MELUS, 40(3), 28–46. https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlv020
Cobb, J. N. “"forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality.” MELUS 40, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 28–46. https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlv020.
Cobb JN. "forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality. MELUS. 2015 Sep 1;40(3):28–46.
Cobb, J. N. “"forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality.” MELUS, vol. 40, no. 3, Sept. 2015, pp. 28–46. Scopus, doi:10.1093/melus/mlv020.
Cobb JN. "forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality. MELUS. 2015 Sep 1;40(3):28–46.
Journal cover image

Published In

MELUS

DOI

EISSN

1946-3170

ISSN

0163-755X

Publication Date

September 1, 2015

Volume

40

Issue

3

Start / End Page

28 / 46

Related Subject Headings

  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 2005 Literary Studies