The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143105992 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 07/25/2017 |
| Pages: | 672 |
| Sales rank: | 1,138,096 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
What Is an African American Classic? Henry Louis Gates, Jr xiii
Introduction Hollis Robbins Henry Louis Gates, Jr xxiii
Suggestions for Further Reading xxxv
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
Personal Accounts of Abolition and Freedom
1 Anonymous (no date) 3
"Address to the Female Literary Association of Philadelphia, on Their First Anniversary: By a Member" (1832) 3
2 Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883) 6
"Speech Delivered to Women's Rights Convention in Akron Ohio" (1851) 7
Anti-Slavery Bugle Version (1851) 7
Frances D. Gage Version (1863) 8
Selections on Western Settlement from Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1875) 9
Petition to Congress 9
"Truths from Sojourner Truth" 9
From The N. Y. Tribune. Sojourner Truth at Work 10
3 Mary Prince (ca. 1788-after 1833) 12
Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) 13
4 Nancy Prince (1799-after 1856) 25
From A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1850) 26
5 Maria W. Stewart (ca. 1805-1879) 29
"An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall" (1833) 30
6 Sarah Mapps Douglass (Zillah) (1806-1882) 38
"A Mother's Love" (1832) 39
7 Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) 41
"The Loophole of Retreat" from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) 41
8 Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907) 46
"The Secret History of Mrs. Lincoln's "Wardrobe in New York," from Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1861) 47
9 Eliza Potter (1820-after 1861) 53
"New Orleans," from A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life (1859) 54
10 Harriet Wilson (1825-1900) 67
Selections from Our Nig (1859) 67
Preface 68
Chapter I: Mag Smith, My Mother 68
Chapter XII: The Winding Up of the Matter 73
11 Hannah Crafts/Bond (1826-after 1859) 76
Selections from The Bondwoman's Narrative (ca. 1858) 77
Chapter 1: In Childhood 77
Chapter 13: A Turn of the Wheel 79
12 Sarah Parker Remand (1826-1894) 86
"The Negroes in the United States of America" 1862) 87
13 Louisa Picquet (ca. 1829-1896) 91
"The Family Sold at Auction-Louisa Bought by a 'New Orleans Gentleman,' and What Came of it," from The Octoroon (1861) 92
Fugitives and Emigrants: Moving West and North
14 Mrs. John Little (no date) 101
"Mrs. John Little," from The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada (1856) 101
15 Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) 109
Selections from A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West (1852) 110
Settlements,-Dawn,-Elgin,-Institution,-Fugitive Home 110
Political Rights-Election Law-Oath-Currency 114
16 Jennie Carter (Semper Fidelis) (ca. 1830-1881) 117
"Letter from Nevada County: Mud Hill, September 2, 1868"(1868) 118
"Letter from Nevada County: Mud Hill, September 12, 1868"(1868) 120
17 Abby Fisher (ca, 1832-after 1881) 122
Selections from What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, Soups, Pickles, Preserves, Etc. (1881) 123
Preface and Apology 123
Jumberlie-A Creole Dish 123
Oyster Gumbo Soup 124
Tonic Bitters-A Southern Remedy for Invalids 124
Sweet Cucumber Pickles 124
Pap for Infant Diet 125
Northern Women and the Post-War South
18 Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) 129
"Life on the Sea Islands" (1864) 130
"Charles Sumner, On Seeing Some Pictures of the Interior of His House" (1874) 164
"The Gathering of the Grand Army" (1890) 165
19 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) 168
"Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women" (1895) 169
"An Open Letter to the Educational League of Georgia" (1889) 172
20 Edmonia Goodelle Highgate (1844-1870) 176
"A Spring Day Up the James" (1865) 177
"Rainy-Day Ink Drops" (1865) 179
"Neglected Opportunities" (1866) 181
"On Horse Back-Saddle Dash, No. 1" (1866) 183
Memoirs: Looking Back
21 Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900) 189
Selections from A Brand Plucked from the Fire (1879) 189
Chapter I: Birth and Parentage 190
Chapter IV: My Teacher Hung for Crime 192
Chapter XIX: Public Effort-Excommunication 194
Chapter XXII: A Visit to My Parents-Further Labors 196
22 Jarena Lee (1783-1855) 200
Selection from Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel (1849) 201
My Call to Preach the Gospel 202
23 Zilpha Elaw (1790-after 1845) 207
Selection from Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American Female of Colour (1846) 208
24 Lucy Delaney (ca. 1830-after 1891) 218
Selections from From Darkness Cometh the Light (1891) 219
Chapter IV 219
Chapter V 223
25 Ella Sheppard (1851-1914) 227
"Historical Sketch of the Jubilee Singers" (1911) 228
Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
26 Sarah Forten Purvis (Magawisca) (1814-1884) 251
"The Slave Girl's Address to Her Mother" (1831) 252
"The Abuse of Liberty" (1831) 253
"Lines" (1838) 254
27 Ann Plato (ca. 1820-after 1841) 256
"Education" (1841) 257
"The Natives of America" (1841) 260
28 Julia Collins (unknown-1865) 263
Selections from The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bade (1865) 263
Chapter VI 264
Chapter VIII: The Flower Fadeth 267
Chapter X: Richard in New Orleans 272
Chapter XXVII: Mrs. Butterworth's Revelation 275
Chapter XXIX: Convalescent 278
29 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) 283
"Enlightened Motherhood: An Address Before the Brooklyn Literary Society, November 15, 1892" 284
Newfound Poems from Forest Leaves (ca. 1840) 293
"Haman and Mordecai" 293
"A Dream" 294
"The Felon's Dream" 296
Later Poems 297
"Eliza Harris" 297
"The Slave Auction" 299
"Lines" 300
"Bible Defense of Slavery" 301
"The Drunkard's Child" 303
"The Revel" 304
"Ethiopia" 305
"To Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe" 306
"The Fugitive's Wife" 307
"An Appeal to My Countrywomen" 308
30 Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) 311
Selections from Peculiar Sam, or, the Underground Railroad, a Musical Drama in Four Acts (1879) 311
Act III 312
Act IV 313
"Talma Gordon" (1900) 318
31 Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman (Kate D. Chapman) (1870-after 1922) 323
"A Question of To-day" (1889) 324
"Lines to Ida B. Wells" (1894) 326
"A Tribute to Negro Regiments" (1898) 327
32 Amelia E. Johnson (ca. 1858-1922) 329
Selections from Clarence and Corinne, or God's Way (1890) 330
Chapter I: Discouraged 330
Chapter IV: Provided For 335
33 Mary E. Ashe Lee (1850-1932) 341
"Afmerica" (1885) 341
34 H. Cordelia Ray (1849-1916) 349
"Lincoln'" (1876) 350
"To My Father" (1893) 352
"Shakespeare"(1893) 353
"In Memoriam (Frederick Douglass)" (1897) 353
"William Lloyd Garrison" (1905) 356
35 Sarah E. Farro (1859-after 1937) 357
Chapter I from True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life (1891) 358
36 Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) 369
"The Woman" (1895) 370
"Amid the Roses" (1895) 373
"I Sit and Sew" (1918) 374
"Sonnet" (1919) 375
"To the Negro Farmers of the United States" (1920) 375
"To Madame Curie" (1921) 376
Women Addressing Women: Addresses and Essays
37 Sarah J. Early (1825-1907) 379
"The Organized Efforts of the Colored Women of the South to Improve Their Condition" (1894) 380
38 Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933) 386
"The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman" (1899) 386
39 Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) 393
"The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Woman of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" (1893) 394
40 Virginia W. Broughton (1856-1934) 406
"Woman's Work" (1894) 407
41 Anna Julia Cooper (1860-1964) 414
"Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race" (1886) 415
"Paper by Mrs. Anna J. Cooper" (1894) 433
42 Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) 436
"The Progress of Colored Women" (1898) 437
"The Convict Lease System and the Chain Gangs" (1907) 441
43 Mary V. Cook (1863-1945) 463
"Women's Place in the Work of the Denomination" (1887) 464
Education and Social Reform
44 Julia Caldwell-Frazier (1863-1929) 483
"The Decisions of Time" (1889) 484
45 Fanny M. Jackson Coppin (1837-1913) 490
"Commencement Address" (1876) 491
A Race's Progress 491
"Christmas Eve Story" (1880) 494
"A Plea for the Mission School" (1891) 497
"A Plea for Industrial Opportunity" (1879) 500
46 Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1907) 504
"The Value of Race Literature" (1895) 505
47 Gertrude Bustill Mossell (1855-1948) 526
"Baby Bertha's Temperance Lesson" (1885) 527
"Will the Negro Share the Glory That Awaits Africa?" (1893) 529
48 Amelia L. Tilghman (1856-1931) 531
"Dedicated to Her Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, of England" (1892) 531
49 Josephine J. Turpin Washington (1861-1949) 533
"A Great Danger" (1884) 533
Annie Porter Excoriated 534
"The Province of Poetry" (1889) 538
"Needs of Our Newspapers: Some Reasons for Their Existence"(1889) 552
"Anglo Saxon Supremacy" (1890) 557
50 Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) 563
"Our Women" (1887) 564
"The Requirements of Southern Journalism" (1893) 565
"Lynch Law and the Color Line" (1893) 572
"Our Country's Lynching Record" (1913) 576
"The Ordeal of the 'Solitary': Mrs. Barnett Protests Against It" (1915) 580
Women Memorializing Women
51 S. Elizabeth Frazier (1864-1924) 585
"Some Afro-American Women of Mark" (1892) 586
52 Lucy Wilmot Smith (1861-1890) 605
"Women as Journalists: Portraits and Sketches of a Few of the Women Journalists of the Race" (1889) 605