The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Hollis Robbins -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the Editors Title Page Copyright Contents What Is an African American Classic? by HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Introduction by HOLLIS ROBBINS and HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Suggestions for Further Reading PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF ABOLITION AND FREEDOM

1: ANONYMOUS: (no date) 2: SOJOURNER TRUTH: (ca. 1797–1883) 3: MARY PRINCE: (ca. 1788–after 1833) 4: NANCY PRINCE: (1799–after 1856) 5: MARIA W. STEWART: (ca. 1803–1879) 6: SARAH MAPPS DOUGLASS (ZILLAH): (1806–1882) 7: HARRIET JACOBS: (1813–1897) 8: ELIZABETH KECKLEY: (1818–1907) 9: ELIZA POTTER: (1820–after 1861) 10: HARRIET WILSON: (1825–1900) 11: HANNAH CRAFTS/BOND: (1826–after 1859) 12: SARAH PARKER REMOND: (1826–1894) 13: LOUISA PICQUET: (ca. 1829–1896)

FUGITIVES AND EMIGRANTS: MOVING WEST AND NORTH

14: MRS. JOHN LITTLE: (no date) 15: MARY ANN SHADD CARY: (1823–1893) 16: JENNIE CARTER (SEMPER FIDELIS): (ca. 1830–1881) 17: ABBY FISHER: (ca. 1832–after 1881)

NORTHERN WOMEN AND THE POST-WAR SOUTH

18: CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKÉ: (1837–1914) 19: JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN: (1842–1924) 20: EDMONIA GOODELLE HIGHGATE: (1844–1870)

MEMOIRS: LOOKING BACK

21: JULIA A. J. FOOTE: (1823–1900) 22: JARENA LEE: (1783–1855) 23: ZILPHA ELAW: (1790–after 1845) 24: LUCY DELANEY: (ca. 1830–after 1891) 25: ELLA SHEPPARD: (1851–1914)

POETRY, DRAMA, AND FICTION

26: SARAH FORTEN PURVIS (MAGAWISCA): (1814–1884) 27: ANN PLATO: (ca. 1820–after 1841) 28: JULIA COLLINS: (unknown–1865) 29: FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER: (1825–1911) 30: PAULINE HOPKINS: (1859–1930) 31: KATHERINE DAVIS CHAPMAN TILLMAN: (1870–after 1922) 32: AMELIA E. JOHNSON: (ca. 1858–1922) 33: MARY E. ASHE LEE: (1850–1932) 34: H. CORDELIA RAY: (1849–1916) 35: SARAH E. FARRO: (1859–after 1937) 36: ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON: (1875–1935)

WOMEN ADDRESSING WOMEN: ADDRESSES AND ESSAYS

37: SARAH J. EARLY: (1825–1907) 38: LUCY CRAFT LANEY: (1854–1933) 39: FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS: (1855–1944) 40: VIRGINIA W. BROUGHTON: (1856–1934) 41: ANNA JULIA COOPER: (1860–1964) 42: MARY CHURCH TERRELL: (1863–1954) 43: MARY V. COOK: (1863–1945)

EDUCATION AND SOCIAL REFORM

44: JULIA CALDWELL-FRAZIER: (1863–1929) 45: FANNIE M. JACKSON COPPIN: (1837–1913) 46: VICTORIA EARLE MATTHEWS: (1861–1907) 47: GERTRUDE BUSTILL MOSSELL: (1855–1948) 48: AMELIA L. TILGHMAN: (1856–1931) 49: JOSEPHINE J. TURPIN WASHINGTON: (1861–1949) 50: IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT: (1862–1931)

WOMEN MEMORIALIZING WOMEN

51: S. ELIZABETH FRAZIER: (1864–1924) 52: LUCY WILMOT SMITH: (1861–1890)

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