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.

Bogin, Ruth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 355 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1976]

Summary:

Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life presents selections 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 twentieth century. Each selection is introduced with a biographical headnote, and the book contains a bibliography of works by or about these women and other black women. The selections are grouped in four parts, emphasizing respectively family relationships, religious activities, political and reformist movements, and education. The women represented in this book comprise a cross section of historically significant black women in the nineteenth century. Ten were born free, eight were freed before the Civil War, and six were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation; eight were born in the North and sixteen in the South. Their names are Annie Louise Burton, Anna Julia Cooper, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Cornelia, Ellen Craft, Silvia Dubois, Elleanor Eldridge, Elizabeth, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Elizabeth Keckley, Lucy Craft Laney, Jarena Lee, Louisa Picquet, Ann Plato, Nancy Prince, Sarah Parker Remond, Amanda Berry Smith, Maria Stewart, Susie King Taylor, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Wells-Barnett, and Fannie Barrier Williams.

Contents:

To knit together the broken ties of family kinship. Silvia Dubois ; Cornelia ; Louisa Picquet ; Elizabeth Keckley ; Elleanor Eldridge ; Susie King Taylor ; Annie Louise Burton ; Ellen Craft

An arrow from the bent bow of the gospel. Elizabeth ; Jarena Lee ; Amanda Berry Smith ; Ann Plato

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

To get an education and to teach my people. Charlotte Forten Grimké ; Lucy Craft Laney ; Frances Jackson Coppin ; Anna Julia Cooper.

Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Black women in nineteenth-century American life.

ISBN:

0271012072

9780271012070

OCLC:

2020055

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