Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence: Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity. An Anthology
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Title
Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence: Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity. An Anthology
This edition
"Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence: Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity. An Anthology." Ed. SallyAnn H. Ferguson. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. xliv+305 pp.
Table of contents
● SallyAnn H. Ferguson / Introduction: Evolutionary Sexuality, Spirituality, and Identity: 19th-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence
● Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) / "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build" (1831)
● Jarena Lee (1783-??) / "The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel. Revised and Corrected from the Original Manuscript, Written by Herself" (1836)
● Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828?-1863?) / From: "Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There. By 'Our Nig'" (1859)
● Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897) / From: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself" (1861)
● Elizabeth Keckley (1818?-1907) / From: "Behind the Scenes: Elizabeth Keckley, Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House" (1868)
● Frances E. Watkins Harper (1824-1911) / The Two Offers (1859)
● Charlotte L. Forten Grimké (1837-1964) / Life on the Sea Islands (May and June, 1864)
● Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) / Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race. From "A Voice from the South" (1892)
● Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) / "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" (1892)
● Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) / "Rachel: A Play in Three Acts" (1920)
● Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) / "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build" (1831)
● Jarena Lee (1783-??) / "The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel. Revised and Corrected from the Original Manuscript, Written by Herself" (1836)
● Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828?-1863?) / From: "Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There. By 'Our Nig'" (1859)
● Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897) / From: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself" (1861)
● Elizabeth Keckley (1818?-1907) / From: "Behind the Scenes: Elizabeth Keckley, Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House" (1868)
● Frances E. Watkins Harper (1824-1911) / The Two Offers (1859)
● Charlotte L. Forten Grimké (1837-1964) / Life on the Sea Islands (May and June, 1864)
● Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) / Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race. From "A Voice from the South" (1892)
● Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) / "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" (1892)
● Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) / "Rachel: A Play in Three Acts" (1920)
About the anthology
● Includes 10 items, one from each of 10 authors
● Textual note: "All of the texts reprinted . . . are based on the original first editions with only minor corrections of obvious printers' errors. There have been no attempts to standardize spelling, capitalization, paragraphing, and such" (xi).
● Textual note: "All of the texts reprinted . . . are based on the original first editions with only minor corrections of obvious printers' errors. There have been no attempts to standardize spelling, capitalization, paragraphing, and such" (xi).
● There is a substantial introductory essay (30+ pages) at the start of the collection, as well as a brief note about "further reading" with each selection, but the anthology does not otherwise annotate the selections or provide headnotes to them.
● Some of the items are of substantial length: e.g., the excerpt from Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" occupies 69 pages and Angelina Weld Grimké's play "Rachel" occupies 79 pages.
Item Number
A0394