Print culture, agency, and Africanity: The origins and meaning of Murray's 'Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race Throughout the World'

n 1912 Daniel Murray published a prospectus for his "Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race throughout the World," Murray's six volumes with some 600 to 800 pages each, including 1200 illustrations, would contain the history of Africans of the transatlantic world. By subscription at...