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Burbridge suppressed dissent, interfered in state and local elections, imposed unpopular controls on Kentucky’s economy, and jailed or banished critics of the war and the Lincoln administration. The people on the receiving end of these actions were mostly fellow Unionists who found the decision to enlist black troops—and the entire emancipationist turn of war policy—repugnant. They rallied white Kentuckians to oppose the decision, petitioned the Administration to suspend it, and campaigned for George McClellan when it became evident that Lincoln was not listening. Burbridge treated such critics harshly. Emancipation changed the nature of what it meant to be loyal to the Union, and Burbridge enforced the new definition rigorously.

This chapter begins by charting the closure of the Liberated African Establishment, and the subsequent history of Lemon Valley and Rupert’s Valley. It then looks at how, during the twentieth century, the memory of St Helena’s role in the abolition of the slave trade was gradually erased, becoming an episode confined to a few history books and eclipsed once again by the glamour of Napoleon. The merging of the liberated Africans into the general population, and the consequent absence of an obvious modern successor population, is also discussed. Finally, the chapter considers the value of detailed case-studies of this type, and the contribution of this book to wider scholarship about the slave trade and its suppression.

Chapter 1 situates the study by historically contextualizing African drums and drumming traditions in North America retrospectively, first, from the period of slavery (1619-1863), and then from Emancipation (1863) to early 1960s. Using the themes (1) socio-cultural dislocation from homeland institutional structures and systems, (2) conversion of most enslaved Africans to Christianity, and (3) slaveholders’ prescriptive and circumscriptive controlling power, Dor explores evidence from compelling secondary sources of suppression of drumming traditions in parts of the African diaspora. Black secular social life, and the Black Church are sites from which the author examines factors that militated against an immediate reinvention of West African drumming traditions in North America even after Emancipation. Chapter 1 concludes with the changing historical, socio-political, cultural, and intellectual landscapes, as well as the agency of individual personalities—Asadata Dafora Horton, Katherine Mary Dunham, Pearl Primus, Babatunde Olatunji, and Kofi Ghanaba— responsible for the genre's resurrection.

The first issue of The Dial under Thayer and Watson came out in January 1920. It was an almost immediate sensation, thanks to its offering works both avant-garde and approachable. Thayer championed the verse of Cummings in particular, but not everyone agreed with him: Amy Lowell and Thayer made a wager as to whether or not Cummings would come to be recognized within the American literary canon. Pound also published his prose and verse in the magazine, including “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.” The magazine steered a careful course, trying to provide adult writing while avoiding the forces of censorship, including the infamous New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and its director John Sumner.

Chapter 5 explores the political background of the prohibition of the slave trade in 1841 and the process of ending slavery in the Regency. It assesses the interaction between the slave trade and European domination after 1816 when Lord Exmouth liberated the western Mediterranean from corsairing activities and abolished Christian slavery in Tunis and Algiers. By the mid-1830s, the traffic in black slaves from Tunis across the Mediterranean rose in tandem with the establishment of European maritime domination in the Mediterranean, prompting Great Britain to pressure Tunis to abolish both the Saharan slave trade and black slavery. Moreover, the political disequilibrium arising from the 1830 French occupation of Algiers also altered the status quo in Tripoli and Tunis and shaped the abolition process in the Regency. On 24 January 1846 slavery was finally abolished in Tunisia.

This chapter discusses Mansfield’s depiction in her diary and in the short story, ‘An Indiscreet Journey’, of her visit to the French town of Gray during the First World War to meet her newly taken lover, Francis Carco. Mansfield’s description of this event involves a slippage between English and French, revealing a degree of instability in her writing that deliberately undermines her omnipotence as narrator. By carefully locating those moments in her retelling of this journey where we find translation being silently undertaken, where phrases are rendered in ungrammatical or non-idiomatic English, we can open up where the fictional account of this event diverges from the ‘real’ event that took place on 19^th February 1915. The French language is revealed to be a marker of Mansfield’s attempt to repress and make unreal the more troubling and upsetting realities not only of war, but of a doomed love affair.

This chapter first traces the gradual and growing challenges to late nineteenth-century Victorian standards in American public and private morality, specifically the increased printing and consumption of salacious literature. The chapter then examines the work of Anthony Comstock, the formation of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and the 1873 passage of the Comstock Act, which limited the availability of obscene literature. In response to Comstock, an articulate and militant opposition emerged. This opposition came not from obscenity dealers but from proponents of liberal radicalism, most notably the free love activist Ezra Heywood and his free speech allies. Their commitment to personal liberty in matters of religion, sexuality, and politics contrasted sharply with prevailing Protestant views. In response to the rising tide of obscene literature and the free love movement, elite Protestants organized the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice.

This chapter concentrates on regional newspapers in Leinster (excluding Dublin) and presents an overview of the regional press in the province during the 1914-21 period. A brief history of some of the main newspapers is provided while some of the key figures involved in those titles are also considered. However, the chapter specifically focuses on four titles, the Meath Chronicle, Enniscorthy Echo, Kilkenny People, and Midland Tribune, papers that came to be regarded as Sinn Féin or republican organs. Individual sections document the origins and history of each title while the key figures involved in of each of these publications are also profiled. Additionally, the editorial commentary of all four papers between 1914 and 1921 is reviewed and analysed. All of these titles were subjected to varying degrees of censorship and suppression while in some cases editors or proprietors were arrested and imprisoned. The experiences of each of these newspapers are documented in this chapter.

This chapter concentrates on regional newspapers in Connacht and presents an overview of the regional press in the province during the 1914-21 period. A brief history of some of the main newspapers is provided while some of the key figures involved in those titles are also considered. However, the chapter specifically focuses on four titles, the Tuam Herald, Roscommon Herald, Mayo News, and Leitrim Observer. The first two papers broadly represented a more constitutional form of Irish nationalism while the latter two came to be regarded as Sinn Féin or republican organs. Individual sections record the origins and history of each title while the key figures involved in of each of these publications are also profiled. Additionally, the editorial commentary of all four papers between 1914 and 1921 is reviewed and analysed. Some of these titles were subjected to censorship, suppression, and forcible closure while in certain cases the proprietors were arrested or imprisoned. The experiences of each of these newspapers are documented in this chapter.

This chapter concentrates on regional newspapers in Munster and presents an overview of the regional press in the province during the 1914-21 period. A brief history of some of the main newspapers is provided while some of the key figures involved in those titles are also considered. However, the chapter specifically focuses on five titles, the Cork Constitution, Skibbereen Eagle, Southern Star, Clonmel Chronicle, and Kerryman. These represent a broad range of political sympathies – one unionist title, two independent titles, and two titles that were strongly associated with the Sinn Féin party. Individual sections record the origins and history of each title while the key figures involved in of each of these publications are also profiled. Additionally, the editorial commentary of all five papers between 1914 and 1921 is reviewed and analysed. All bar one of these papers were affected by the Anglo-Irish conflict – the Southern Star and Kerryman experienced censorship, suppression, and forcible closure while the Cork Constitution and Skibbereen Eagle were targeted by Irish republicans. The experiences of each of these newspapers are documented in this chapter.

This chapter returns to the research questions posed in the introduction and reflects on some of the most notable features of the regional press that are detailed in the book. This includes the devout religious faith that was evident amongst so many editors and proprietors and the involvement of so many journalists in organisations such as the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and the Gaelic League. It also includes the remarkably lengthy editorial tenures that was so common within the regional press and the high degree of prolonged family ownership of newspapers. Also reviewed is the frequently fractious relations between the British authorities and Irish newspapers. Finally, this chapter recognises the predominantly conservative nature of Irish regional newspapers and concludes by emphasising the importance of the historical gap that this book fills.