Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

Table of Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
1 Maria W. Stewart......Page 23
“An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of America” (1832)......Page 24
2 Ann Plato......Page 29
“Education” (1841)......Page 31
“Death of the Christian” (1841)......Page 33
“Louisa Sebury” (1841)......Page 34
“The Natives of America” (1841)......Page 36
3 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper......Page 38
“Liberty for Slaves” (1857)......Page 40
“Moses: A Story of the Nile” (1869)......Page 42
“Then and Now” (1895)......Page 58
4 Frank A. Rollin......Page 62
“The Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany” (1883)......Page 64
5 Mary V. Cook......Page 76
“Woman’s Place in the Work of the Denomination” (1887)......Page 77
6 Josephine Heard......Page 91
“Welcome to Hon. Frederick Douglass” (1890)......Page 92
“Wilberforce” (1890)......Page 94
“They Are Coming?” (1890)......Page 95
“Resting: In Memoriam of Mrs. Bishop Turner” (1890)......Page 97
7 Anna Julia Cooper......Page 98
“The Status of Woman in America” (1892)......Page 100
8 S. Elizabeth Frazier......Page 109
“Some Afro-American Women of Mark” (1892)......Page 110
9 Virginia W. Broughton......Page 121
“Woman’s Work” (1894)......Page 122
10 Gertrude Bustill Mossell......Page 128
“The Work of the Afro-American Woman” (1894)......Page 130
11 Hardie Martin......Page 141
“How the Church Can Best Help the Condition of the Masses” (1896)......Page 142
12 Victoria Earle Matthews......Page 145
“The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman” (1897)......Page 146
13 Amelia Etta Hall Johnson......Page 153
“Some Parallels of History” (1899)......Page 154
14 Katherine Davis Tillman......Page 159
“Heirs of Slavery. A Little Drama of Today” (1901)......Page 160
15 Pauline Hopkins......Page 165
“Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self ” (1902–1903)......Page 167
\"Famous Women of the Negro Race: Educators\" (1902)......Page 173
16 Leila Amos Pendleton......Page 195
“A Narrative of the Negro” (1912)......Page 196
17 Olivia Ward Bush-Banks......Page 207
“Unchained, 1863” (1914)......Page 208
“A Hero of San Juan Hill” (1914)......Page 210
18 Drusilla Dunjee Houston......Page 212
“Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire” (1926)......Page 214
19 Hallie Quinn Brown......Page 227
“Harriet—The Moses” (1926)......Page 228