Submissions reaching after the deadline will be considered for publication in future issues. Thank you for your time. We seek original work reassessing the aesthetic, social, and political significance of the era after the end of Radical Reconstruction and before the Harlem Renaissance. Despite Supreme Court-backed establishment of segregation and an epidemic of lynching, African Americans not only achieved in art, literature, and music, but also established a vocal black press, built an educational system, and created networks of political and social leadership to resist both the legal and illegal violence aimed at keeping them from full citizenship. We are interested in essays that probe this era in new ways.
Interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.
In December 1848, William and Ellen Craft began a daring escape from enslavement in Macon, Georgia. Their journey launched them into celebrity and a legacy of public activism that they pursued for the rest of their lives. Original contributions on any aspect of the Crafts' story are invited for a proposed collection. I have found that you do have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. Campbell Barbara McCaskill, Associate Professor of African American Literature, Park Hall 101, Department of English, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-6502, Tel.