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A Voice from the South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Anna Julia Cooper  Review "A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published."--Robert Carr, George Mason University "A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era."--...
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Mary Seacole Publisher Comments No autobiography by an Afro-American woman of the nineteenth century defies classification more than Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857). A free-born Jamaican, evidently well protected from the tentacles of slavery, Mary Jane Grant...
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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...
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Silvia DuBois, a Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by C W Larison Publisher Comments 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, one of them mine, and it is the product of a...
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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Pauline E Hopkins Review "A gift to the profession (and to our students) to have the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women's Writers in affordable paperback."--Janet Gabler-Hover, Georgia State Univ. "Brilliant...her masterwork."--Eric J. Sundquist in The New York...
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Clarence & Corrine: or God's Way
by A E Johnson Publisher Comments Published in 1890, Clarence and Corinne is a novel that reflects the social reform ideology of the U.S. women's movement in the late 19th century. Mrs. Johnson condemns the destructive effects of "demon" alcohol on the nuclear family, focusing on the...
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Megda
by Emma Dunham Kelley Publisher Comments Megda, a novel so popular in 1891 that it was reprinted the following year, tells the story of the conversion experiences of a group of young, middle-class Baptist women and their subsequent--or even consequent--marriages. A prime example of what has...
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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 nontheless...
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A Voice from the South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Anna Julia Cooper Publisher Comments This collection of essays (1891) is an unparalleled statement of black feminist thought in the nineteenth century, and is considered to be one of the original texts of the black feminist movement. Cooper came of age in a period of conservatism in the...
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
by Elizabeth Keckley Publisher Comments This fascinating autobiography describes one woman's life as a slave and subsequently her four years in Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, a seamstress and dressmaker who was only a few years removed from...
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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Pauline E Hopkins Publisher Comments Both an extraordinarily detailed examination of black life in nineteenth-century America and a richly textured and engrossing piece of fiction, Contending Forces remains one of the most important works produced by an African American before World War I....
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