{"title":"Postal networks and global letters in Cartagena de Indias: the overseas mail in the Spanish empire in the eighteenth century","authors":"Rocío Moreno-Cabanillas","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2021.1902199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1902199","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the eighteenth century, all European colonial empires undertook the task of institutionalising their postal systems. Within the framework of the Bourbon reforms, the Spanish monarchy embarked upon reforming the postal system within the Spanish America with the aim of making transatlantic communications more reliable and regular. These plans, however, were hampered by an ongoing power struggle between all agents with a stake in the circulation of information. This is clearly reflected in the postal office in Cartagena de Indias, which was a key node for the Crown and a point of confluence for the strategies and interests of different local and global powers; the office, therefore, represented the polyhedric reality of postal communication. This paper shows that the institution had its own agency by constituting one of the main power tools, which is a reflection of the close relationship that exists between empire and communication.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42157836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Jesuit Global networks of exchange of Asian goods: A “conflictive” musk load around the middle of the seventeenth century","authors":"Pedro Omar Svriz-Wucherer","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2021.1920791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1920791","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1648, a Portuguese ship that left Macau sank off the coast of the Philippines. The local authorities in Manila confiscated and sold all of its goods. This led to a dispute with the Jesuits, who claimed a certain amount of musk belonging to the Vice Province of China, the sale of which would support their religious mission. This article offers an analysis of this event, focusing on the dispute between the mentioned parties, but also as an example of the complex global networks of goods exchanges and economic interests in these regions of Southeast Asia in the middle of the seventeenth century.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49307651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frederico Baptista de Souza: the formation of a Black editor in the South Atlantic","authors":"Lívia Maria Tiede","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2020.1854569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1854569","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Frederico Baptista de Souza was born to a slave mother during the period of the Free Womb Law in Brazil (1871). After slavery’s abolition, Souza campaigned in favor of full citizenship for formerly enslaved people. Black newspapers in São Paulo originated from the clubs of people who were prohibited from enjoying the clubs attended by whites regardless of their class. I examine the Black press’ rise through Souza, founder of one of the region’s oldest and longest running racial groups, the Dramatic and Recreational Guild Kosmos. Apart from coordinating, producing, and editing papers, Souza wrote op-eds and figured among those who shaped public opinion about Brazilian racial matters, often articulating ideas and concepts from other regions of the world, especially the “uplift generation” of the United States. Souza’s life is evidence of a once thriving and engaging Black press in this corner of the Atlantic that was São Paulo.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14788810.2020.1854569","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47216577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to become an antiracist newspaper in the 1890s Black Atlantic: The ethical imperative of recirculation in Celestine Edwards’s Fraternity","authors":"M. Bilbija","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2020.1823189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1823189","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines the print strategies of Britain’s first Black editor, S. J. Celestine Edwards (1857?–1894), during his tenure at the antiracist journal, Fraternity. I show how Edwards capitalized on “scissors-and-paste” methods to articulate connections between minoritizing processes in British colonies and the US, thus formulating a theory of Anglo-Saxonism as a power relation reproduced across empires. Via the pages of Fraternity, Edwards reassembled this inter-imperial formation as an antiracist one, relying on reprints from the African American and British colonial press. Building on Caroline Bressey, I argue that Edwards extended the journal’s function as a “relay station” for the colonial and African American press to his readers, whom he charged with memorizing and ventriloquizing Fraternity, and hailed as walking, talking issues of his paper. His directives to recirculate already reprinted texts inducted readers into an imagined community whose membership refracted across multiple publications rather than centered on one.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14788810.2020.1823189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44986898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trajectories in Black Atlantic print culture studies: A virtual roundtable","authors":"Nele Sawallisch, Joanna J. Seibert","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2021.1915656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1915656","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The following conversation with leading scholars in the fields of Black Atlantic literatures and cultures, life writing, and literary studies offers a number of considerations on the state of Black (Atlantic) print culture studies, its potential to revise our understanding of African American literature, its intersections with other disciplines and contemporary fiction, and its lasting radical legacies. In so doing, the discussion comes full circle by harking back to the work of Frances Smith Foster, who opens this collection, as part of the genealogy of scholarship on Black print culture.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14788810.2021.1915656","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47608538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Atlantic interventions of Black editorship in the long nineteenth century","authors":"Nele Sawallisch, Joanna J. Seibert","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2021.1915667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1915667","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Black people’s contributions to print ventures have been constant and manifold across the Atlantic world during the past centuries. If enslavement and forced labor dictated their involvement in many instances, Black people from early on also adopted the roles of authors, contributors, subscribers, and, notably, editors of different print materials. This collection of essays pays respect to different embodiments of Black editors in the Atlantic world, highlighting that from North to South America to Great Britain they occupied and promoted multifaceted roles, agendas, and poieses during a transformative period in the Atlantic world, the long nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14788810.2021.1915667","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42352476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Leave that slavery-cursed republic”: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Black feminist nationalism, 1852–1874","authors":"Nneka D. Dennie","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2020.1799707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1799707","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study argues that Mary Ann Shadd Cary theorized and practiced Black feminist nationalism as she edited the newspaper that she founded, the Provincial Freeman, and wrote a variety of pieces throughout her career. The decades-long union between her editorship and writing allowed her to craft a Black feminist nationalism that infused her writings, speeches, and activism during and after the newspaper’s publication. An examination of how the Provincial Freeman and Shadd Cary herself fostered public discourse on Black people’s labor and women’s rights reveals how Shadd Cary practiced and theorized Black feminist nationalism. The union between Shadd Cary’s resistance strategies – editing and writing – illustrates how Black editorship in the early Atlantic world created opportunities for editors to not simply disseminate, but produce knowledge. It affirms that editing was an inherently political practice that allowed activists to fashion themselves as both editors and intellectuals.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14788810.2020.1799707","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46431489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“After you, my dear Alphonse;” Or, when politeness and good intentions are not enough","authors":"F. Foster","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2020.1865015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1865015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For a variety of reasons, emerging research areas can excite and often motivate people to explore and even contribute. But too often even for experienced scholars, academic prowess, good intentions, and curiosity are inadequate, even dangerous. Careful analysis of one's own strengths and weaknesses along with fastidious research and contextualization are essential if one's efforts are to produce accurate, complete, and useful scholarship. Targeted collaboration can be the vaccine against miseducation and misinformation.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14788810.2020.1865015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48590940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haiti and the United States: In Black print","authors":"R. A. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2020.1798207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1798207","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines the editorial positions of Thélismon Bouchereau and Frederick Douglass on abolition and Black uplift to explore a transnational, bilingual discussion of Black freedom in the Atlantic world. It surveys reporting in Haitian and U.S. newspapers, including La République and Douglass’ Monthly to argue that Black editorship of newspapers in Haiti and the United States provided a cohesive intraracial perspective of nineteenth-century Blackness and of the shared Black struggle for the abolition of slavery and for the uplift of free Black people across the Atlantic world.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14788810.2020.1798207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46409497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subversive editing: Rebellious reprints in Freedom’s Journal","authors":"Scott Zukowski","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2020.1776978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1776978","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay analyzes the literary reprints found in New York’s Freedom’s Journal (1827–1829), the first newspaper owned and operated exclusively by African Americans. It demonstrates that the Journal’s editors strategically used seemingly apolitical, nonracial, and often European reprints as subtle vehicles for engagement with the racial politics of the 1820s United States. In doing so, the essay provides a new perspective in the scholarly discourse of race and the gothic (a prominent genre of reprint in the Journal), and it contributes a new perspective of Freedom’s Journal role as a Black medium within a larger, circum-Atlantic network.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14788810.2020.1776978","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43272350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}