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18th-century American publications
19th-century American broadsides
19th-century American international fears
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abolitionism
abolitionism and captivity narratives
ace and war in early U.S. culture
African American history and the sea
African identity in early America
African identity in U.S. print culture
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Algerian pirates
Algerine Crisis
Algiers
American captives in North Africa
American captivity narratives
American identity
American identity formation
American literature of captivity
American piracy conflicts
American poetry and piracy
American responses to foreign slavery
American sailors captured by pirates
American travel narratives
Antebellum
antebellum cultural anxieties
anti-slavery rhetoric and white slavery
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Barbary Coast history
Barbary conflicts in print
Barbary Crisis
Barbary Pirates
Barbary Wars
captivity and abolitionist thought
Captivity narratives
Captivity stories in print
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Children's literature and piracy
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cross-cultural representations in U.S. texts
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Early America
early American children's books and empire
early American foreign relations
Early American Literature
Early American literature and piracy
Early American naval conflicts
Early American newspaper articles
Early American newspapers and identity
Early American novels on piracy
Early American print culture
early American propaganda
early American public discourse
Early American racial identity
early American visual culture
Early national print culture
early republic and international slavery
early U.S. naval history
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Historical piracy
Influence of piracy on American media
Islam and early American identity
Jewish identity in American literature
Jewish identity in early America
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link between slavery and pirates
literary depictions of Muslim piracy
Literary representations of North African piracy
maritime terror in the early republic
maritime threats to early America
Mediterranean conflicts in U.S. history
National security in the early American republic
nationalism and racial identity
Newspapers and piracy
North African piracy
North African pirates in fiction
North Africans in literature
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performance culture and piracy
Peter Markoe
piracy and the young republic
Piracy in the Mediterranean
Pirate capture of American citizens
Pirates in American plays
plays about piracy in early America
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Print culture
Print culture and national identity
print responses to piracy
propaganda in early U.S. newspapers
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racial identity in the early republic
Representation of pirates in American literature
Royall Tyler
seafaring and national anxiety
softlaunch
transatlantic captivity narratives
Transatlantic influence on print culture
Transatlantic literature
Transatlantic piracy
Transatlantic slavery and identity
Transatlantic studies
travel narratives and global conflict
Tripolitan War
U.S. print media and empire
U.S. responses to foreign captivity
Visual ephemera in early American culture
Visual representations of piracy
white slavery in American imagination
Product details
- ISBN 9781625347428
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Dec 2023
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784–1815), and this overseas danger threatened to grow and irreparably harm the young republic.
Blood and Ink reconstructs the largely forgotten influence of these early American conflicts with North Africa on notions of publicity, print culture, and racial and national identity from independence to the Civil War. Exploring the extensive archive of texts inspired by the conflicts—from captivity narratives, novels, plays, and poems to broadsides, travel narratives, children’s literature, newspaper articles, and visual ephemera—Jacob Crane connects anxieties surrounding North African piracy and white slavery to both the development of American abolitionism and representations of transatlantic African and Jewish identities in the early national and antebellum periods.
Jacob Crane is associate professor of English and media studies at Bentley University.
