Research Catalog

Title

We must be up and doing : a reader in early African American feminisms / edited by Teresa C. Zackodnik.

Publication

Peterborough, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Broadview Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Zackodnik, Teresa C.

Description

xviii, 380 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Sources
• History
• African American feminists > History > Sources
• Feminism > United States > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-373) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Cause for encouragement (1832) / Maria W. Stewart -- Excerpts from The life and religious experiences of Jarena Lee, a Coloured lady, giving an account of her call to preach the gospel (1836) / Jarena Lee -- Excerpts from Memoirs of the life, religious experiences, ministerial travels and labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American female of Colour : together with some account of the great religious revivals in America (1846) / Zilpha Elaw -- Excerpts from A brand plucked from the fire. An autobiographical sketch (1879) / Julia Foote -- An address delivered before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston (1832) / Maria W. Stewart -- Mental feasts (1832) / Sarah Mapps Douglass -- Address to the Female Literary Association of Philadelphia, on their first anniversary : by a member (1832) / Anonymous -- The abuse of liberty (1831) / Sarah Forten ("Magawisca") -- A mother's love (1832) / Sarah Mapps Douglass ("Zillah") -- A plea for the oppressed (1850) / Lucy Stanton --
• The Colored people in America, Poems on miscellaneous subjects (1854) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Could we trace the record of every human heart (1857) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Pro-slavery in Indiana / Sojourner Truth -- Three lectures. Lecture on American slavery by a Colored lady ; A second lecture by Miss Remond ; The lecture at the Lion Hotel (1859) / Sarah Parker Remond -- "Miss Remond in Manchester (1859) / Sarah Parker Remand -- Lecture by Sojourner Truth (1853) / Sojourner Truth -- The humbug of reform (1854) / Mary Ann Shadd Cary -- A voice of thanks (1861) / Mary Ann Shadd Cary -- Mrs. Frances E. Watkins Harper on the war and the President's colonization scheme (1862) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Thoughts on colonization (1862) / Elizabeth J. Jennings -- Mrs. Steward's essays (1832) / Maria W. Stewart -- Letter from Miss Watkins (1859) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Our educational interests (1873) / Katie S. Campbell --
• The higher education of women (1891) / Anna Julia Cooper -- Industrial education--will it solve the Negro problem (1904) / Nannie Helen Burroughs -- What has education done for Colored women (1904) / Josephine B. Bruce -- Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832) / Maria W. Stewart -- Mrs. Parson's lecture (I am an anarchist) (1886) / Lucy Parsons -- The Colored woman and her relation to the domestic problem (1902) / Nannie Helen Burroughs -- What it means to be Colored in the capital of the United States (1907) / March Church Terrell -- Employment of Colored women in Chicago (1911) / Addie Hunton -- More slavery at the South (1912) / A Negro Nurse -- Our woman's department--a word of counsel (1886) / Gertrude Mossell (Mrs. N.E. Mossell) -- Some of the dangers of confronting Southern girls in the North (1898) / Victoria Earle Matthews -- Social bonds in the 'Black Belt' of Chicago (1905) / Fannie Barrier Williams -- Duty to dependent races (1891) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --
• Southern horrors : lynch law in all its phases (1892) / Ida B. Wells -- The Negro's case in equity (1900) / Ida B. Wells (Barnett) -- Lynching from a Negro's point of view (1904) / March Church Terrell -- The Anti-Lynching Crusaders (1922) / The Anti-Lynching Crusaders -- The intellectual progress of the Colored women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation (1894) / Fannie Barrier Williams -- A charge to be refuted (1895) / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin -- The burden of the educated Colored woman (1899) / Lucy Craft Laney -- Negro womanhood defended (1904) / Addie Hunton -- The duty of the National Association of Colored women to the race (1900) / March Church Terrell -- The gain in the life of Negro women (1904) / Margaret Murray Washington -- The National Association of Colored Women (1904) / Josephine Silone-Yates -- Woman's Rights Convention (1851) / Sojourner Truth -- Woman's Rights Convention. Meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle (1853) / Sojourner Truth --
• Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl (1863) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- We are all bound up together (1866) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Female suffrage (1867) / Sojourner Truth -- A Colored woman's voice (1869) / Naomi Talbert -- Speech to judiciary committee re: the right of women to vote (1874) / Mary Ann Shadd Cary -- Woman's suffrage. A potent agency in public reforms (1887) / Mary E. ("Meb") Britton -- Woman versus the Indian (1892) / Anna Julia Cooper -- Woman's political future (1894) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Woman suffrage (1905) / Adella Hunt Logan -- Woman suffrage and the 15th Amendment (1915) / Mary Church Terrell -- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Colored woman (1888) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- All things considered (1891) / Ida B. Wells -- Love's way (a Christmas story) (1905) / Carrie W. Clifford.

ISBN

• 9781551119175 (pbk.)
• 155111917X (pbk.)

OCLC

• 465566230
• SCSB-11967625

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library