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We are coming : the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century Black women /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Logan, Shirley W. (Shirley Wilson), 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, [1999]
Subjects:
African American women > Political activity > History > 19th century.
African American women > Language.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
African American intellectuals > History > 19th century.
Women intellectuals > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Black women on the speaker's platform, 1832-1900: an overview
  • African origins/American appropriations: Maria Stewart and "Ethiopia rising"
  • "We are all bound up together": Frances Harper's converging communities of interest
  • "Out of their own mouths": Ida Wells and the presence of lynching
  • "Women of a common country, with common interests": Fannie Barrier Williams, Anna Julia Cooper, identification and arrangement
  • "To embalm her memory in song and story": Victoria Earle Matthews and situated sisterhood
  • "Can women do this work?": the discourse of racial uplift
  • Appendixes.