To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Making of the Black Middle ClassIn this study of antebellum African American print culture from a transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class. Through innovative readings of slave narratives, sermons, fiction, convention proceedings, and the advice literature printed in forums like Freedom's Journal, the North Star, and the Anglo African Magazine, Ball demonstrates that black