Women's work : an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton.

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"This anthology aims to bring together writings by African-American women between 1832 and 1920, the period when they began to write for American audiences and to use history to comment on political and social issues of the day. The pieces are by more familiar nineteenth-century writers in Black Ame...

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Other Authors: Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F., 1960-, Lofton, Kathryn
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
African Americans > History > 19th century > Sources.
African American women > History > 19th century > Sources.
African Americans > History > 20th century > Sources.
African American women > History > 20th century > Sources.
African Americans > Historiography.
African American historians.
Women historians > United States.
African American women authors.
African American women > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:viii, 227 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "An address delivered before the African-American Female Intelligence Society of America" / Maria Stewart (1832)
  • "Education," "Death of the Christian," "Louisa Sebury," "The natives of America" / Ann Plato (1841)
  • "Liberty for slaves" (1857), "Moses : the story of the Nile" (1869), "Then and now" (1895) / Frances E.W. Harper
  • "The life and public services of Martin R. Delany" / Frank A. Rollin (1883)
  • "Woman's place in the work of the denomination" / Mary V. Cook (1887)
  • "Welcome to Honorable F. Douglass," "Wilberforce," "They are coming," "Resting : in memoriam of Mrs. Bishop Turner" / Josephine Heard (1890)
  • "The status of woman in America" / Anna Julia Cooper (1892)
  • "Some Afro-American women of mark" / S. Elizabeth Frazier (1892)
  • "Woman's work" / Virginia Broughton (1894)
  • "The work of the Afro-American woman" / Mrs. N.F. Mossell (1894)
  • "How the Church can best help the condition of the masses" / Hardie Martin (1896)
  • "The awakening of the Afro-American woman" / Victoria Earle Matthews (1897)
  • "Some parallels of history" / A.E. Johnson (1899)
  • "Heirs of slavery. A little drama of today" / Katherine Davis Tillman (1901)
  • "Of one blood, or, The hidden self" (1902-1903), "Educators" (1902) / Pauline Hopkins
  • "A narrative of the Negro" / Leila Amos Pendleton (1912)
  • "Unchained, 1863," "A hero of San Juan Hill" / Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (1914)
  • "Wonderful Ethiopians of the ancient Cushite empire" / Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1926)
  • "Harriet Tubman" / Hallie Quinn Brown (1926).