Eric Gardner
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732832
- eISBN:
- 9781604732849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732832.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter presents the story of the fragility of black literary communities appearing in unexpected places—in particular, the story of the ultimate disintegration of the Indiana base of the ...
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This chapter presents the story of the fragility of black literary communities appearing in unexpected places—in particular, the story of the ultimate disintegration of the Indiana base of the Repository. With the Recorder in Philadelphia and the Repository resettled in Baltimore, Weaver and Brown soon became somewhat-hesitant participants in a debate about whether the church could support two periodicals. This chapter examines the arguments swirling around the Recorder’s rebirth and the Repository’s demise; within this context, it closes with a contrastive reading of recently rediscovered Repository texts by early black activist Maria W. Stewart and Weaver’s later travel writing for the Recorder. It focuses not only on the varying conceptions of the West as a site of a version of the domesticated black frontier that John Berry Meachum alluded to in his Address but also on two symbiotic forms of black mobility, that of the ever-striving settlers and that of itinerant ministers.Less
This chapter presents the story of the fragility of black literary communities appearing in unexpected places—in particular, the story of the ultimate disintegration of the Indiana base of the Repository. With the Recorder in Philadelphia and the Repository resettled in Baltimore, Weaver and Brown soon became somewhat-hesitant participants in a debate about whether the church could support two periodicals. This chapter examines the arguments swirling around the Recorder’s rebirth and the Repository’s demise; within this context, it closes with a contrastive reading of recently rediscovered Repository texts by early black activist Maria W. Stewart and Weaver’s later travel writing for the Recorder. It focuses not only on the varying conceptions of the West as a site of a version of the domesticated black frontier that John Berry Meachum alluded to in his Address but also on two symbiotic forms of black mobility, that of the ever-striving settlers and that of itinerant ministers.
