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The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Olivia W Bush Banks Publisher Comments Highly spiritual, the work in this collection represents both previously published and unpublished material by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, a notable and neglected black woman writer. Including short fiction, poetry, and drama, her work fills a lacuna in the... (read more) List Price $85.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Work of the Afro-American Woman (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by N F Mossell Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $79.75 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Clarence and Corinne; Or God's Way (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Mrs A E Johnson Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by William L Andrews Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Pauline Hopkins Review "Brilliant....It is not hard to imagine that, once her fiction is given the attention it deserves, Hopkins could replace Chestnutt as the foremost black novelist of the period."--Eric J. Sundquist, The New York Times Book Review "The three novels... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Work of the Afro-American Woman by N F Mossell Review "These essays offer a wide-ranging intellectual history of the 'budding womanhood of the race.'"--The Village Voice "Though she celebrates the achievement of black women more than she protests the injustices against them, her book of essays is... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Homespun Heroines & Other Women of Distinction by Hallie Q Brown Publisher Comments Hallie Q. Brown--teacher, international lecturer, social activist, and herself a "woman of distinction"--recreates, along with twenty-eight contributors , the lives of sixty remarkable Afro-American women, all born in the United States and Canada between... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Silvia DuBois: A Biography of the Slave Who Whipped Her Mistress and Gained Herfreedom by C W Larison Review ' \"This book may be mostly history or it may be mostly folklore, but it is in any case well worth reading. It is a colloquy--an extended interview--with a long foreword by the interviewer and two appendices...the colloquy took place on January 27, 1883... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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