Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and index.
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.
