Black women in nineteenth-century American life : their words, their thoughts, their feelings / edited with an introduction by Bert James Loewenberg and Ruth Bogin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loewenberg, Bert James, 1905-1974, editor, writer of introduction.

Bogin, Ruth, editor, writer of introduction.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 355 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.

Contents:

Introduction: Selves and Society. Women, Blacks, History; Sources of Inner Wholeness; The Family; Responsibilities of Black Women; Rights for Blacks, Rights for Women; The Solidarity of Humankind

I. "To Knit Together the Broken Ties of Family Kinship" Silvia Dubois, Cornelia; Louisa Picquet; Elizabeth Keckley; Elleanor Eldridge; Susie King Taylor; Annie Louis Burton; Ellen Craft

II. "An Arrow from the Bent Bow of the Gospel" Elizabeth; Jarena Lee; Amanda Berry Smith; Ann Plato

III. "Let Us Make a Mighty Effort and Arise" Maria Stewart; Nancy Prince; Harriet Tubman; Sarah Parker Remond; Sojourner Truth; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Ida Wells-Barnett; Fannie Barrier Williams

IV. "To Get an Education and to Teach My People" Charlotte Forten Grimké; Lucy Craft Laney; Frances Jackson Coppin; Anna Julia Cooper.

Notes:

"Designed by Rick Villastrigo."

"A selection from the writings of two dozen representative Black women leaders of the past century, with a general introduction relating them to their forebears in colonial times and to their descendants in the 20th century. Each selection is introduced with a biographical headnote, and there is a bibliography of works by or about these women and other Black women."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-346) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".

ISBN:

0271012072

OCLC:

2020055