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Otter, Samuel. Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

In this very scholarly study written to make Philadelphia crucial to our understanding of American literary history, Otter explains the previously overlooked role that Philadelphia writers between 1790s and 1860 played in the development of an American literature focused on race and freedom.

Referenced in:
The Power of Words: Writers and Publishers

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