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1	Relocations of the 'Outraged Slave': Transatlantic Reform Conversations through Douglass's Periodical Fiction Fernandes, Nikki D 01 January 2017 (has links) Through their editorial arrangements of African-American, Euro-American and European poetry, fiction and news, Frederick Douglass’s anti-slavery periodicals (The North Star and Frederick Douglass’ Paper) imagine a cosmopolitan discourse that predates the segregated realities of the antebellum United States. In spite of Southern blockades against the infiltration of Northern texts, Douglass’s material space uniquely capitalized on the limited restrictions of his reprinting culture to relocate the voice of the ‘outraged slave’ onto a global stage. From the poems of Phillis Wheatley and William Cowper to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Douglass’s own novella “The Heroic Slave,” this project considers how Douglass’s literary inclusions—and exclusions—complicate our static considerations of the historicized Douglass and exhibit his savvy insertions of black print into an exclusive, transatlantic nineteenth-century print culture. The North Star Frederick Douglass' Paper Charles Dickens Bleak House Phillis Wheatley The Heroic Slave Antebellum Anti-slavery African American Studies American Literature American Material Culture Literature in English, British Isles Literature in English, North America