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Mary Ann Shadd Cary : essential writings of a nineteenth-century black radical feminist /

This volume collects writing by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an abolitionist, suffragist, one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America, and the first Black woman to enroll in law school in the United States. It includes letters, newspaper articles, and several never-before-publi...

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Main Author: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893 (Author)
Other Authors: Dennie, Nneka D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Series:Oxford new histories of philosophy.
Subjects:
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, > 1823-1893.
Feminism > United States > History > 19th century.
African American women civil rights workers > History > 19th century.
Civil rights workers > United States > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
Black people > Civil rights > Canada > History > 19th century.
Féminisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains affranchis.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes noires > Droits > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle.
African American women civil rights workers.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Black people > Civil rights.
Civil rights workers.
Feminism.
Canada.
United States.
Society & culture: general.
Society.
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series
  • Mary Ann Shadd Cary
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Series Editors' Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Cover Illustration
  • Introduction: "We Should Do More, and Talk Less"
  • Life and Context
  • Reading Shadd Cary's Radicalism
  • Two-​Faced Archive
  • Parts and Sources
  • Part I. "Our Women Must Speak Out
  • The Boys Must Have Trades": Visions of Racial Uplift
  • 1. Letter to Frederick Douglass, North Star, March 23, 1849
  • 2. Letter to George Whipple, November 27, 1851
  • 3. "The Colored People in Canada-​Do They Need Help?," Liberator, March 4, 1853
  • MINUTES
  • 4. "A Good Boarding House Greatly Needed by the Colored Citizens of Canada," Provincial Freeman, December 6, 1856
  • 5. "For the attention of all Temperance reformers, Legislators, Ministers of religion &c," Provincial Freeman, March 28, 1857
  • 6. "Meetings at Philadelphia," Provincial Freeman, April 18, 1857
  • 7. "School for ALL!!," Provincial Freeman, June 13, 1857
  • 8. "An Unmitigated Falsehood," Weekly Anglo-​African, February 15, 1862
  • 9. "Editorial-​ by M. A. S. Cary (Editor)," Provincial Freeman, Spring Edition 1866
  • 10. "Letter from Baltimore," New National Era, August 10, 1871
  • 11. "Letter from Wilmington, DE," New National Era, August 31, 1871
  • 12. "Letters to the People-​No. 1 Trade for Our Boys!," New National Era, March 21, 1872
  • 13. "Letters to the People-​No. 2 Trade for Our Boys!," New National Era, April 11, 1872
  • 14. "Should We Economise?," n.d.
  • 15. "Diversified Industries a National Necessity," n.d.
  • Part II. "Our Leaders Do Not Take the Women into Consideration": Empowering Black Women
  • 16. "Woman's Rights," Provincial Freeman, May 6, 1854
  • 17. "To our Readers West," Provincial Freeman, June 9, 1855
  • 18. "Adieu," Provincial Freeman, June 30, 1855
  • 19. "Editorial Cor. for the Provincial Freeman," Provincial Freeman, April 26, 1856
  • 20. Sermon, April 6, 1858
  • 21. "Report on Woman's Labor," Proceedings of the Colored National Labor Convention, 1870
  • 22. "A First Vote, Almost," 1871
  • 23. "Would Woman Suffrage Have a Tendency to Elevate the Moral Tone of Politics," n.d.
  • 24. "Speech to the Judiciary Committee Re: The Rights of Women to Vote," January 21, 1874
  • 25. "The Last Day of the 43 Congress," circa March 1875
  • 26. "Petition of Mary Shadd Cary, a citizen of Washington, District of Columbia, praying for the removal of her political disabilities," Petitions and Memorials, 45th Congress, circa 1878
  • 27. Colored Women's Progressive Franchise Association Minutes, February 9, 1880
  • 28. Colored Women's Progressive Franchise Association Statement of Purpose, circa February 1880
  • PLAN
  • 29. "Advancement of Women," New York Age, November 11, 1887
  • Part III. "The Men Who Love Liberty Too Well to Remain in the States": Enabling Emigration