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We are coming : the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century Black women
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- Creator
- Shirley Wilson Logan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780809321926, 0809321920, 9780809321933, 0809321939
- OCLC
- ocm39633753
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
- 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
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.