We Must Be Up and Doing: A Reader in Early African American Feminisms
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We Must Be Up and Doing: A Reader in Early African American Feminisms
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""We Must Be Up and Doing": A Reader in Early African American Feminisms." Ed. Teresa C. Zackodnik. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2010. xviii+380 pp.
Table of contents
● Acknowledgements
● List of Photographs
● Anon. / Introduction
Chapter 1: Roots of Reform and Early African American Feminism
WOMEN AND THE CHURCH
● Maria W. Sewart / Cause for Encouragement (1832)
● Jarena Lee / Excerpts from “The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel” (1836)
● Zilpha Elaw / 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)
● Julia Foote / Excerpts from “A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch” (1879)
FEMALE BENEVOLENT AND LITERARY SOCIETIES
● Maria W. Stewart / An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston (1832)
● Sarah Mapps Douglass / Mental Feasts (1832)
● Anon. / Address to the Female Literary Association of Philadelphia, On their First Anniversary: By a Member (1832)
ABOLITION
● Sarah Forten ("Magawisca") / The Abuse of Liberty (1831)
● Sarah Mapps Douglass ("Zillah") / A Mother's Love (1832)
● Lucy Stanton / A Plea for the Oppressed (1850)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / The Colored People in America: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Could We Trace the Record of Every Human Heart . . . (1857)
● Sojourner Truth / Pro-Slavery in Indiana (1858)
● Sarah Parker Remond / Three Lectures: Lecture on American Slavery by a Colored Lady (1859)
● Sarah Parker Remond / Three Lectures: A Second Lecture by Miss Remond (1859)
● Sarah Parker Remond / Three Lectures: The Lecture at the Lion Hotel (1859)
● Sarah Parker Remond / Miss Remond in Manchester (1859)
Chapter 2: Feminist Black Nationalism
EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION
● Sojourner Truth / Lecture by Sojourner Truth (1853)
● Mary Ann Shadd Cary / The Humbug of Reform (1854)
● Mary Ann Shadd Cary / A Voice of Thanks (1861)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Mrs. Frances E. Watkins Harper On the War and the President's Colonization Scheme (1862)
● Elizabeth J. Jennings / Thoughts on Colonization (1862)
EDUCATION
● Maria W. Stewart / Mrs. Steward's Essays (1832)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Letter from Miss Watkins (1859)
● Katie S. Campbell / Our Educational Interests (1873)
● Anna Julia Cooper / The Higher Education of Women (1891)
● Nannie Helen Burroughs / Industrial Education—Will it Solve the Negro Problem (1904)
● Fannie Barrier Williams / Industrial Education—Will it Solve the Negro Problem (1904)
● Josephine B. Bruce / What Has Education Done for Colored Women (1904)
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
● Maria W. Stewart / Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832)
● Lucy Parsons / Mrs. Parson's Lecture [I am an anarchist . . .] (1886)
● Nannie Helen Burroughs / The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem (1902)
● Mary Church Terrell / What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States (1907)
● Addie Hunton / Employment of Colored Women in Chicago (1911)
● Anon. (A Negro Nurse) / More Slavery at the South (1912)
MIGRATION
● Gertrude Mossell [Mrs. N.F. Mossell] / Our Woman’s Department . . . A Word of Counsel (1886)
● Victoria Earle Matthews / Some of the Dangers of Confronting Southern Girls in the North (1898)
● Fannie Barrier Williams / Social Bonds in the 'Black Belt' of Chicago (1905)
Chapter 3: Lynching
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Duty to Dependent Races (1891)
● Ida B. Wells / Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
● Ida B. Wells [Barnett] / The Negro’s Case in Equity (1900)
● Mary Church Terrell / Lynching from a Negro's Point of View (1904)
● The Anti-Lynching Crusaders / The Anti-Lynching Crusaders (1922)
Chapter 4: Defending Black Womanhood and the Black Women’s Club Movement
DEFENSE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD
● Fannie Barrier Williams / The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation (1894)
● Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin / A Charge to be Refuted (1895)
● Lucy Craft Laney / The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman (1899)
● Addie Hunton / Negro Womanhood Defended (1904)
CLUB MOVEMENT
● Mary Church Terrell / The Duty of the National Association of Colored Women to the Race (1900)
● Margaret Murray Washington / The Gain in the Life of Negro Women (1904)
● Josephine Silone-Yates / The National Association of Colored Women (1904)
Chapter 5: Woman’s Rights, Suffrage, Temperance
WOMAN’S RIGHTS
● Sojourner Truth / Woman’s Rights Convention (1851)
● Sojourner Truth / Woman's Rights Convention: Meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle (1853)
● Harriet Beecher Stowe / Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl (1863)
● Frances D. Gage / Sojourner Truth (1863)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / We Are All Bound Up Together (1866)
SUFFRAGE
● Sojourner Truth / Female Suffrage (1867)
● Naomi Talbert / A Colored Woman’s Voice (1869)
● Mary Ann Shadd Cary / Speech to Judiciary Committee Re: The Right of Women to Vote (1874)
● Mary E. ("Meb") Britton / Woman's Suffrage. A Potent Agency in Public Reforms (1887)
● Anna Julia Cooper / Woman Versus the Indian (1892)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Woman's Political Future (1894)
● Adella Hunt Logan / Woman Suffrage (1905)
● Mary Church Terrell / Woman Suffrage and the 15th Amendment (1915)
TEMPERANCE
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Colored Woman (1888)
● Ida B. Wells / All Things Considered . . . (1891)
● Carrie W. Clifford / Love's Way (A Christmas Story) (1905)
● References and Further Readings
● Index of Names
● List of Photographs
● Anon. / Introduction
Chapter 1: Roots of Reform and Early African American Feminism
WOMEN AND THE CHURCH
● Maria W. Sewart / Cause for Encouragement (1832)
● Jarena Lee / Excerpts from “The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel” (1836)
● Zilpha Elaw / 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)
● Julia Foote / Excerpts from “A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch” (1879)
FEMALE BENEVOLENT AND LITERARY SOCIETIES
● Maria W. Stewart / An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston (1832)
● Sarah Mapps Douglass / Mental Feasts (1832)
● Anon. / Address to the Female Literary Association of Philadelphia, On their First Anniversary: By a Member (1832)
ABOLITION
● Sarah Forten ("Magawisca") / The Abuse of Liberty (1831)
● Sarah Mapps Douglass ("Zillah") / A Mother's Love (1832)
● Lucy Stanton / A Plea for the Oppressed (1850)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / The Colored People in America: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Could We Trace the Record of Every Human Heart . . . (1857)
● Sojourner Truth / Pro-Slavery in Indiana (1858)
● Sarah Parker Remond / Three Lectures: Lecture on American Slavery by a Colored Lady (1859)
● Sarah Parker Remond / Three Lectures: A Second Lecture by Miss Remond (1859)
● Sarah Parker Remond / Three Lectures: The Lecture at the Lion Hotel (1859)
● Sarah Parker Remond / Miss Remond in Manchester (1859)
Chapter 2: Feminist Black Nationalism
EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION
● Sojourner Truth / Lecture by Sojourner Truth (1853)
● Mary Ann Shadd Cary / The Humbug of Reform (1854)
● Mary Ann Shadd Cary / A Voice of Thanks (1861)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Mrs. Frances E. Watkins Harper On the War and the President's Colonization Scheme (1862)
● Elizabeth J. Jennings / Thoughts on Colonization (1862)
EDUCATION
● Maria W. Stewart / Mrs. Steward's Essays (1832)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Letter from Miss Watkins (1859)
● Katie S. Campbell / Our Educational Interests (1873)
● Anna Julia Cooper / The Higher Education of Women (1891)
● Nannie Helen Burroughs / Industrial Education—Will it Solve the Negro Problem (1904)
● Fannie Barrier Williams / Industrial Education—Will it Solve the Negro Problem (1904)
● Josephine B. Bruce / What Has Education Done for Colored Women (1904)
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
● Maria W. Stewart / Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832)
● Lucy Parsons / Mrs. Parson's Lecture [I am an anarchist . . .] (1886)
● Nannie Helen Burroughs / The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem (1902)
● Mary Church Terrell / What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States (1907)
● Addie Hunton / Employment of Colored Women in Chicago (1911)
● Anon. (A Negro Nurse) / More Slavery at the South (1912)
MIGRATION
● Gertrude Mossell [Mrs. N.F. Mossell] / Our Woman’s Department . . . A Word of Counsel (1886)
● Victoria Earle Matthews / Some of the Dangers of Confronting Southern Girls in the North (1898)
● Fannie Barrier Williams / Social Bonds in the 'Black Belt' of Chicago (1905)
Chapter 3: Lynching
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Duty to Dependent Races (1891)
● Ida B. Wells / Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
● Ida B. Wells [Barnett] / The Negro’s Case in Equity (1900)
● Mary Church Terrell / Lynching from a Negro's Point of View (1904)
● The Anti-Lynching Crusaders / The Anti-Lynching Crusaders (1922)
Chapter 4: Defending Black Womanhood and the Black Women’s Club Movement
DEFENSE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD
● Fannie Barrier Williams / The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation (1894)
● Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin / A Charge to be Refuted (1895)
● Lucy Craft Laney / The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman (1899)
● Addie Hunton / Negro Womanhood Defended (1904)
CLUB MOVEMENT
● Mary Church Terrell / The Duty of the National Association of Colored Women to the Race (1900)
● Margaret Murray Washington / The Gain in the Life of Negro Women (1904)
● Josephine Silone-Yates / The National Association of Colored Women (1904)
Chapter 5: Woman’s Rights, Suffrage, Temperance
WOMAN’S RIGHTS
● Sojourner Truth / Woman’s Rights Convention (1851)
● Sojourner Truth / Woman's Rights Convention: Meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle (1853)
● Harriet Beecher Stowe / Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl (1863)
● Frances D. Gage / Sojourner Truth (1863)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / We Are All Bound Up Together (1866)
SUFFRAGE
● Sojourner Truth / Female Suffrage (1867)
● Naomi Talbert / A Colored Woman’s Voice (1869)
● Mary Ann Shadd Cary / Speech to Judiciary Committee Re: The Right of Women to Vote (1874)
● Mary E. ("Meb") Britton / Woman's Suffrage. A Potent Agency in Public Reforms (1887)
● Anna Julia Cooper / Woman Versus the Indian (1892)
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Woman's Political Future (1894)
● Adella Hunt Logan / Woman Suffrage (1905)
● Mary Church Terrell / Woman Suffrage and the 15th Amendment (1915)
TEMPERANCE
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Colored Woman (1888)
● Ida B. Wells / All Things Considered . . . (1891)
● Carrie W. Clifford / Love's Way (A Christmas Story) (1905)
● References and Further Readings
● Index of Names
Item Number
A0427