| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection, 1818–1907 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html>. Created and maintained by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., as a part of the Library of Congress American Memory project. Reviewed April 6–13, 2005.

Pamphleteering is an enduring American pursuit. More than thirty-five years ago Bernard Bailyn pointed to the critical role played by pamphlet literature in advancing the cause of the American Revolution. The explosion of interest in the history of the book has given renewed impetus to the study of pamphlets in a variety of fields. Pamphlets played a critical role among African Americans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By their very nature, these documents can be readily distributed and inexpensively (and occasionally surreptitiously) passed along. Pamphlets are democracy in action. Precisely because they could be produced without the gatekeeping of the mainstream press, pamphlets became the medium of choice for fast distribution of an unmediated literature directly composed by and for (and often published within) the African American community.

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