We are coming : the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century Black women / Shirley Wilson Logan.
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Language: | English |
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Carbondale, Ill. :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[1999], ©1999.
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Physical Description: | xvi, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Black women on the speaker's platform, 1832-1900: an overview
- African origins/American appropriations: Maria Stewart and "Ethiopia rising"
- "We are all bound up together": Frances Harper's converging communities of interest
- "Out of their own mouths": Ida Wells and the presence of lynching
- "Women of a common country, with common interests": Fannie Barrier Williams, Anna Julia Cooper, identification and arrangement
- "To embalm her memory in song and story": Victoria Earle Matthews and situated sisterhood
- "Can women do this work?": the discourse of racial uplift
- Appendixes.