The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers – serie
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A Voice From the South
Häftad, 2005
451 kr
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Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age …
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction
Inbunden, 1988
1558 kr
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Hallie Q. Brown and twenty-eight contributors recreate the lives of sixty remarkable Afro-American women, all born in the United States or Canada between the 1740s and the end of the nineteenth century. Slaves and social workers, artists and activists, cake makers and home makers, their stories …
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké
Av Charlotte Forten Grimké, Brenda Stevenson
Inbunden, 1988
2627 kr
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Born into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher, and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career, her involvement with the anti-slavery movement, her eighteen months teaching the …
Silvia Dubois
A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom
Av C. W. Larison, Jared C. Lobdell
Inbunden, 1988
1650 kr
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In an extended interview in 1883 Silvia Dubois, then nearly 100 years old, told her life story to Dr Cornelius Wilson Larison. This volume is an edited and annotated edition of Larison's original text, written is his idiosyncratic phonetic spelling. How much of Silvia's life is history, and how …
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
Inbunden, 1988
3472 kr
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This was probably the best-selling novel by an Afro-American writer prior to the twentieth century. Published in 1892, it went through five impressions in one year. Frances Harper had already gained an international reputuation as a writer, lecturer, and political activist when this, her only …
The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley
Av Phillis Wheatley, John C. Shields
Inbunden, 1988
923 kr
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Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first black American to publish a book and enjoyed international fame during her short life. Yet despite the considerable achievements of this young poet, her work has never received its critical due. This collection restores her to her proper place in America's …
Four Girls at Cottage City
Inbunden, 1988
2599 kr
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This novel, published in 1898, tells the story of four carefree young women, all physically indistinguishable from white women, off for a vacation at a Massachusetts resort - a vacation that ultimately leads to their struggle for salvation and their commitment to Christian service. Combining …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Inbunden, 1988
1367 kr
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Published in 1861, this book is one of the last of many slave narratives published before the Civil War; it is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. As such it offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. Merging the conventions …
Collected Poems of Frances E. W. Harper
Av Frances E. W. Harper, Maryemma Graham
Inbunden, 1988
2336 kr
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Frances Harper was renowned in her lifetime not only as an activist who rallied on behalf of blacks, women, and the poor, but as a pioneer of the tradition of 'protest' literature, whose immense popularity did much to develop an audience for poetry in America. This collection of her poems is drawn …
Megda
Inbunden, 1988
1345 kr
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This novel, which was very popular when published in 1891, tells the story of the conversion experiences of a group of young, middle-class Baptist women and their subsequent - or consequent - marriages. In it, racial issues are only indirectly addressed, gentility is a concern ranking second only …
A Voice from the South
Inbunden, 1988
2123 kr
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This collection of essays (1891) is an unparalleled statement of black feminist thought in the nineteenth century, and is considered to be one of the original texts of the black feminist movement. Cooper came of age in a period of conservatism in the black community, a time when Afro-American …
Essays
Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry
Av Ann Plato
Inbunden, 1988
2231 kr
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These writings, which first appeared in 1841, tell us much about the writer herself and the city in which she lived: Hartford, Connecticut. A cultural centre of the new nation, the city's Congregationalism, its free black society, and local literary tradition, are all reflected in Ann Plato's work. …
The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins
Inbunden, 1988
2337 kr
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The Colored American Magazine, first published in 1900, was a pioneering forum for black literary talent. Pauline Hopkins was not only a prolific contributor, but one of its powerful editorial forces. These stories reveal her commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change, weaving themes such …
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
Av Mary Seacole
Inbunden, 1988
1553 kr
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A far cry from the nineteenth-century slave narrative tradition, this book, written in 1857, is a special kind of success story. With delightful urbanity and wit, Mary Seacole, a free-born Jamaican Creole, recounts her childhood as a daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black …
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1
Av Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Gloria T. Hull
Inbunden, 1988
1848 kr
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These works are as multi-faceted as their writer, who was a teacher, editor, public speaker, and campaign manager of mixed white, black, and Indian descent, born in New Orleans in 1875. Her pieces span the full range of literary genres - from short stories, fluffy romances, mystical novelettes, …
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2
Av Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Gloria T. Hull
Inbunden, 1988
1976 kr
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These works are as multi-faceted as their writer, who was a teacher, editor, public speaker, and campaign manager of mixed white, black, and Indian descent, born in New Orleans in 1875. Her pieces span the full range of literary genres - from short stories, fluffy romances, mystical novelettes, …
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 3
Av Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Gloria T. Hull
Inbunden, 1988
2283 kr
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These works are as multi-faceted as their writer, who was a teacher, editor, public speaker, and campaign manager of mixed white, black, and Indian descent, born in New Orleans in 1875. Her pieces span the full range of literary genres - from short stories, fluffy romances, mystical novelettes, …
Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 1
Inbunden, 1988
1832 kr
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These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets. Surprisingly, only one of them (Lizelia Moorer) …
Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 2
Inbunden, 1988
2494 kr
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These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets. Surprisingly, only one of them (Lizelia Moorer) protests at …
Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 3
Inbunden, 1988
1598 kr
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These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets. Surprisingly, only one of them (Lizelia Moorer) protests at …
Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 4
Inbunden, 1988
1514 kr
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These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets. Surprisingly, only one of them (Lizelia Moorer) protests at …
The Hazeley Family
Inbunden, 1988
1514 kr
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When first published by the American Baptist Publication Society in 1894, The Hazeley Family was advertised as `a book that should be in every Sunday-school library'. The novel is typical of the `angel of the home' romances written by American women in the later nineteenth century. It tells how the …
Contending Forces
A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
Inbunden, 1988
2441 kr
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Published in 1900, this is Hopkins's best-known novel, and her only fiction to be published in book form in her lifetime. Like her magazine fiction, it employs the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting social change. A uniquely detailed examination of black life, and a …
Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Inbunden, 1988
3508 kr
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This fascinating autobiography describes one woman's life as a slave and subsequently her four years in Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, a seamstress and dressmaker who was only a few years removed from being a `slave for life', we see historical …
Collected Black Women's Narratives
Av Anthony Gerard Barthelemy, Nancy Prince
Inbunden, 1988
2351 kr
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Dating from 1853 to 1902, these autobiographical narratives give us a keen insight into four vastly different lives. Nancy Price, born free in Massachusetts in 1799, tells of her travels to Europe, Russia, and Jamaica. Susie King Taylor, who escaped to freedom during the Civil War, records her …
An Autobiography
The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist
Av Amanda Smith
Inbunden, 1988
1598 kr
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Amanda Berry Smith was a trail-blazing black woman evangelist of the nineteenth century. She became a member of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal congregation in Philadelphia in 1865, a time when women were denied positions of authority in the denomination. By the time of her death in 1915 the …
Six Women's Slave Narratives
Av William L. Andrews, Mattie Jackson
Inbunden, 1988
1725 kr
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman …
The House of Bondage
or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves
Inbunden, 1988
2336 kr
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Setting out to correct the inadequacies of many written accounts of slavery, teacher and social activist Octavia Albert added her own incisive commentary to the personal narratives of former slaves. Her early interviews, like many antebellum slave narratives, depict cruel punishments, divided …
Clarence and Corinne, or God's Way
Inbunden, 1988
1252 kr
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Published in 1890, this novel reflects the social reform ideology of the US women's movement in the late nineteenth century. Its theme is the destructive effect of the 'demon' alcohol on the family. The Baptist Messenger, a black religious publication, called it `one of the silent, yet powerful …
The Work of the Afro-American Woman
Inbunden, 1988
1472 kr
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Part intellectual history, part advice book, and part polemic, this collection of original essays and poetry is a defence and celebration of the achievements - moral, material, intellectual, and artistic - of black women in Victorian America. Writing as a Christian, a mother, and a wife, Mrs Mosell …
