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The First African American Newspaper.(Freedom's Journal: The First African American Newspaper)(Book review)

Jacqueline Bacon, Freedom's Journal: The First African American Newspaper. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. Pp. x, 325. Cloth $80.00. Paper $29.95.

Jacqueline Bacon's Freedom's Journal fills an important gap in the scholarship on the black press and on African American activism and intellectual life before 1830. As the author notes, scholars have long recognized the importance of Freedom's Journal as the first newspaper published and edited by African Americans for a primarily African American audience. However, until now, there had been no focused, book-length analysis of the newspaper that contextualizes its intellectual and activist agendas within the broader patterns ...

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