Nine Black Women: An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Writers from the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the Caribbean

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Moira Ferguson
Psychology Press, 1998 - 278 páginas
This is the first anthology to bring together the writings of the earliest black women writers in the East and West Caribbean, Bermuda, Canada, the US and England. The selections span the American Revolution to the decade following the Civil War. The nine writers included, both slave and free, represent a variety of genres, regions, professions, and political perspectives. Their words suggest the rich cultural history embedded in the writings, and provide a glimpse into the lives of women coping with extreme racism and sexism. As black women, survival guides the construction of their texts and their public images. Each employs diverse strategies of resistance, evasion, displacement, omission and accommodation. With an introduction that contains copious biographical details about each writer and a brief chronology preceding each text, Nine Black Women is a unique collection of original works.

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Elizabeth Hart Thwaites 17711833
9
Poem
15
Letter to a Friend
22
Mary Prince ca 1788after 1833
47
Mary Jane Grant Seacole 18051881
71
Harriet Ann Jacobs 18131897
97
Harriet E Adams Wilson
119
Jarena Lee 1783after 1849
145
Nancy Gardner Prince 1799?
171
Mary Ann Shadd Cary 18231893
201
NOTES
235
27
238
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
249
INDEX
265
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Moira Ferguson is the James E. Ryan Chair in English and Women's Literature at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

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