Table of Contents:
  • Black daughter, Black history
  • Patriarchal facts and fictions
  • The creation of a Boston family
  • Progressive arts and the public sphere
  • Dramatic freedom : The slaves' escape; or, The underground railroad
  • Spectacular matters : "Boston's favorite colored soprano" and entertainment culture in New England
  • Literary advocacy : women's work, race activism, and lynching
  • For humanity : the public work of Contending forces
  • Contending forces as ancestral narrative
  • Cooperative enterprises
  • (Wo)manly testimony : the Colored American magazine and public history
  • Love, loss, and the reconstitution of paradise : Hagar's daughter and the work of mystery
  • "Boyish hopes" and the politics of brotherhood : Winona, a tale of Negro life in the South and Southwest
  • The souls and spirits of Black folk : pan-Africanism and racial recovery in Of one blood and other writings
  • Witness to the truth : the public and private demise of the Colored American magazine
  • The Colored American magazine in New York City
  • New alliances : Pauline Hopkins and the Voice of the Negro
  • Well known as a race writer : Pauline Hopkins as public intellectual
  • The New era magazine and a "singlewoman of Boston"
  • Cambridge days.