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Contents
Introduction
Part I. Locating Readers
1. Conjuring Readers: Antebellum African American Children's Poetry
Angela Sorby
2. Free the Children: Jupiter Hammon and the Origin of African American Children's Literature
Courtney Weikle-Mills
3. "Ye Are Builders": Child Readers in Frances Harper's Vision of an Inclusive Black Poetry
Karen Chandler
Part II: Schooling, Textuality, and Literacies
4. Madame Couvent's Legacy: Free Children of Color as Historians in Antebellum New Orleans
Mary Niall Mitchell
5. Black Childhood Innocence in Susan Paul and Ann Plato's Antebellum Children's Biographies
Ivy Linton Stabell
6. Equiano as Role Model for African American Children: Abigail Field Mott's Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano and White Northern Abolitionism in the 1820s
Valentina K. Tikoff
7. The Child's Illustrated Anti-Slavery Talking Book: Abigail Mott's Abridgment of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative for African American Children
Martha J. Cutter
Part III: Defining African American Children's Literature: Critical Crossovers
8. "Our Hope Is in the Rising Generation": Locating African American Children's Literature in the Colored American's "Children Department" (1840-1841)
Nazera Sadiq Wright
9. "No Rights That Any Body Is Bound to Respect": Pets, Race, and African American Child Readers
Brigitte Fielder
10. Finding God's Way: Amelia Johnson's Clarence and Corrine as a Path to Religious Resistance for African American Children
LuElla D'Amico
Part IV: Bibliographic Essays
11. Nuggets from the Field: The Roots of African American Children's Literature, 1780-1866
Laura Wasowicz
12. Children's Literature in the AME Christian Recorder: An Initial Comparative Bio-Bibliography for May 1862 and April 1873
Eric Gardner
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Contributors
Index.