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Author Logan, Shirley W. (Shirley Wilson), 1943-

Title We are coming : the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century Black women / Shirley Wilson Logan.

Imprint Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.5082 L828w 1999    ---  Available
Description xvi, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography 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.
Subject African American women -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century.
Women intellectuals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African American women -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
African American intellectuals -- History -- 19th century.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
African American women -- Language.
ISBN 0809321939 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0809321920 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780809321926 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780809321933 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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