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25. Louise H. Johnson, “The Source of the Chapter on Slavery in Dickens's American Notes,”
American Literature
14 (January 1943): 427-430; Trish Loughran,
The Republic in Print: Print Culture
in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2007);
Meredith L. McGill,
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
(Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
26.
American Slavery
, 127 - 128.
27. Frederick Douglass,
American Slavery: Report of a Public Meeting Held at Finsbury Chapel,
Moorfields, to Receive Frederick Douglass, the American Slave, on Friday, May 22, 1846
(London: C. B.
Christian, 1846).
28. Stowe,
Key
, 21.
29. Ibid., 89; see also 21 and 90.
30. Thomas C. Leonard, “Anti Slavery, Civil Rights, and Incendiary Material,” in
Media
and Revolution: Comparative Perspectives
, ed. Jeremy D. Popkin (Louisville: University Press of
Kentucky, 1995), 121.
31. Stowe,
Key
, 21.
32.
American Slavery
, 166, includes a four-line item “from the 'Richmond (Va.) Whig,' June
30, 1837. 'Ranaway, my man Peter.—He has a
sister
and
mother
in New Kent, and a
wife
about
fifteen or eighteen miles above Richmond, at or about Taylorsville. Theo. A. Lacy.'” This empha-
sis, of course, did not appear in the much longer advertisement as it was actually printed,
which also noted the man's skin color and build, sulky appearance, and what he was wearing
( “ Notice ” ).
33.
American Slavery
, 83.
34. “ Circular, ” par. 2,
Colored American
,
June 16, 1838: n.p. Accessible Archives, www.accessible
.com (accessed April 30, 2012).
35. Graham Russell Hodges,
David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Rail-
road in NewYork City
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), 135.
36. “ READING ROOM, ”
Colored American
(January 12, 1839): n.p. Accessible Archives,
www.accessible.com (accessed April 30, 2012). See also “A Reading Room,”
Colored American
(February 10, 1838): n.p. Accessible Archives, www.accessible.com (accessed April 30, 2012).
37. Loughran,
Republic in Print
, 355, 356, 357.
38. Birney,
The Grimk é Sisters
, 258 - 259.
39. Other than Weld's mention of it, I have found no references to the New York Commercial
Reading Room. The size of Gilpin's Exchange, its proximity to the office of the American
