| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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1. Black Daughter, Black History |
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7 | |
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2. Patriarchal Facts and Fictions |
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33 | |
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3. The Creation of a Boston Family |
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46 | |
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4. Progressive Arts and the Public Sphere |
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70 | |
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5. Dramatic Freedom: The Slaves' Escape; or, The Underground Railroad |
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108 | |
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6. Spectacular Matters: "Boston's Favorite Colored Soprano" and Entertainment Culture in New England |
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139 | |
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7. Literary Advocacy: Women's Work, Race Activism, and Lynching |
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161 | |
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8. For Humanity: The Public Work of Contending Forces |
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190 | |
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9. Contending Forces as Ancestral Narrative |
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220 | |
| 10. Cooperative Enterprises |
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253 | |
| 11. (Wo)Manly Testimony: The Colored American Magazine and Public History |
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284 | |
| 12. Love, Loss, and the Reconstitution of Paradise: Hagar's Daughter and the Work of Mystery |
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318 | |
| 13. "Boyish Hopes" and the Politics of Brotherhood: Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest |
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366 | |
| 14. The Souls and Spirits of Black Folk: Pan-Africanism and Racial Recovery in Of One Blood and Other Writings |
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386 | |
| 15. Witness to the Truth: The Public and Private Demise of the Colored American Magazine |
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407 | |
| 16. The Colored American Magazine in New York City |
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442 | |
| 17. New Alliances: Pauline Hopkins and the Voice of the Negro |
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459 | |
| 18. Well Known as a Race Writer: Pauline Hopkins as Public Intellectual |
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489 | |
| 19. The New Era Magazine and a "Singlewoman of Boston" |
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502 | |
| 20. Cambridge Days |
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526 | |
| Appendix 1. Speeches |
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537 | |
| Appendix 2. Letters |
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542 | |
| Appendix 3. Review of Contending Forces |
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558 | |
| Notes |
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563 | |
| Bibliography |
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631 | |
| Index |
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665 | |