Contains The Complete Works Of The First African-american To Publish A Book Of Poetry. Poems On Various Subjects, Religious And Moral. To Maecenas -- On Virtue -- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-england -- To The King's Most Excellent Majesty 1768 -- On Being Brought From Africa To America -- On The Death Of The Rev. Dr. Sewell 1769 -- On The Death Of The Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770 -- On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years Of Age -- On The Death Of A Young Gentleman -- To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband -- Goliath Of Gath -- Thoughts On The Works Of Providence -- To A Lady On The Death Of Three Relations -- To A Clerygman On The Death Of His Lady -- An Hymn To The Morning -- An Hymn To The Evening -- Isaiah Lxiii. 1-8 -- On Recollection -- On Imagination -- A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C.e. An Infant Of Twelve Months -- To Captain H---d, Of The 65th Regiment -- To The Right Honourable William, Earl Of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary Of State For North America -- Ode To Neptune. On Mrs. W---'s Voyage To England -- To A Lady On Her Coming To North America With Her Son, For The Recovery Of Her Health -- To A Lady On Her Remarkable Preservation In An Hurricane In North-carolina -- To A Lady And Her Children, On The Death Of Her Son And Their Brother -- To A Gentleman And Lady On The Death Of The Lady's Brother And Sister, And A Child Of The Name Avis, Aged One Year -- On The Death Of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771-- To A Gentleman On His Voyage To Great-britain For The Recovery Of His Health -- To The Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory On Reading His Sermons On Daily Devotion, In Which That Duty Is Recommended And Assisted -- On The Death Of J.c. An Infant -- An Hymn To Humanity. To S.p.g. Esq. -- To The Honourable T.h. Esq; On The Death Of His Daughter -- Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Vi. And From A View Of The Painting Of Mr. Richard Wilson -- To S.m. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works -- To His Honour The Lieutenant-governor, On The Death Of His Lady. March 24, 1773 -- A Farewel To America. To Mrs. S.w. -- A Rebus, By I.b. -- An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems. Extant Poems Not Included In The 1773 Poems. Atheism -- An Address To The Deist -- On Messrs. Hussey And Coffin -- America -- To The Honble. Commodore Hood On His Pardoning A Deserter -- On Friendship -- On The Death Of Mr. Snider Murder'd By Richardson -- An Elegy To Miss Mary Moorhead, On The Death Of Her Father, The Rev. Mr. John Moorhead -- To A Gentleman Of The Navy -- The Answer [by The Gentleman Of The Navy] -- Phillis's Reply To The Answer -- To His Excellency General Washington -- On The Capture Of General Lee -- On The Death Of General Wooster -- To Mr. And Mrs. --- On The Death Of Their Infant Son -- An Elegy Sacred To The Memory Of That Great Divine, The Reverend And Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper -- Liberty And Peace -- An Elegy On Leaving --- Prose. Letters. To The Rt. Hon'ble The Countess Of Huntingdon (october 25, 1770) -- Madam [to Abigail May?] (november Or December 1771) -- Hon'd Sir [john Thornton] (april 21, 1772) -- To Abour Tanner, In Newport (may 19, 1772) -- To Arbour Tanner, In Newport (july 19, 1772) -- My Lord [earl Of Dartmouth] (october 10, 1772) -- Madam [the Countess Of Huntingdon] (june 27, 1773) -- Madam [the Countess Of Huntingdon] (july 17, 1773) -- Sir [david Wooster] (october 18, 1773) -- To Obour Tanner, In New Port (october 30, 1773) -- Hon'd Sir [john Thornton] (december 1, 1773) -- [to The Rev. Samuel Hopkins] (february 9, 1774) -- Reverend And Honoured Sir [to Samson Occom] (february 11, 1774) -- To Miss Obour Tanner, Newport (march 21, 1774) -- Much Honoured Sir [john Thornton] (march 29, 1774) -- To Miss Obour Tanner, New Port, Rhode Island (may 6, 1774) -- Rev'd Sir [samuel Hopkins] (may 6, 1774) -- Much Hon'd Sir [john Thornton] (october 30, 1774) -- Sir [george Washington] (october 26, 1775) -- Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (may 29, 1778) -- Madam [mary Wooster] (july 15, 1778) -- Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (may 10, 1779) -- Proposals For Volumes. Proposals For Printing By Subscription (february 29, 1772) -- Proposals (october 30, 1779) -- Wheatley's Final Proposal (september 1784) -- Prayer : Sabbath -- June 13, 1779. Variant Poems And Letters. Poems. To The University Of Cambridge, Wrote In 1767 -- On Atheism [variant I] -- On Atheism [variant Ii] -- Deism -- To The King's Most Excellent Majesty On His Repealing The American Stamp Act -- On The Death Of The Rev'd Dr. Sewall, 1769 -- To Mrs. Leonard, On The Death Of Her Husband -- An Elegiac Poem, On The Death Of -- George Whitefield [variant I] -- An Ode Of Verses On The Much-lamented Death Of The Rev. Mr. George Whitefield [variant Ii] -- On The Death Of Doctor Samuel Marshall -- Recollection, To Miss A---, M--- -- To The Rev. Mr. Pitkin, On The Death Of His Lady -- To The Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; On The Death Of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard -- To The Right Honourable William Legge, Earl Of Dartmouth -- To The Empire Of America, Beneath The Western Hemisphere. Farewell To America. To Mrs. S.w. [variant I] -- Farewell To America [variant Ii] -- An Elegy Sacred To The Memory Of The Rev'd Samuel Cooper, D.d. -- On The Death Of J.c. An Infant -- Letters. Most Notable Lady [the Countess Of Huntingdon] (october 25, 1770 -- My Lord [dartmouth] (june 3, 1773). Phillis Wheatley's Struggle For Freedom In Her Poetry And Prose / John C. Shields. Edited With An Essay By John C. Shields. Includes Bibliographical References.

The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers: 30-volume set (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Silvia Dubois: a biografy of the slav who whipt her mistres and gand her fredom

The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist

Behind the scenes : or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House

Incidents in the life of a slave girl

The Works Of Alice Dunbar-nelson

Six women's slave narratives

A voice from the South

The Hazeley family

An Autobiography

Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child, Francine L. Jacobs, l. maria child, Carolyn L. Karcher, Jacobs, Hans Murray, Carla Fonte Sánchez, Carme Manuel Cuenca

Elizabeth Keckley; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Mary Seacole, Sara Salih, Ziggi Alexander, Victorine Rilliet de Constant Massé (D

C.W. Larison; edited with a translation and introduction by Jared C. Lobdell

Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881, author; Andrews, William L., writer of introduction

Mary Seacole; William L Andrews; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

C. W. Larison, Cornelius Wilson Larison, C. W. Larison, Gerald E. Greene

Anna J Cooper; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

Mary Seacole; with an introduction by William L. Andrews

Harriet Jacobs; with an introduction by Valerie Smith

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784;Shields, John C., 1944-

Silvia Dubois; Cornelius W. Larison

Johnson, A. E. (Amelia E.), b. 1859

William L Andrews; Mary Seacole

Alice Moore Dunbar-nelson

Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Amanda Smith

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

Taylor & Francis Us

The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century black women writers, New York, Oxford, England, 1990

The Schomberg library of nineteenth-century black women writers, New York, Oxford, England, 2000

The Schomburg libraryof nineteenth-century black women writers, New York, Oxford, England, 1988

The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers, New York, New York State, 1988

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New Edition, 1990

Revised, US, 1990

Reprint, 1988

PS, 1988

1, 1988

Facsim of ed. published: London : Blackwood, 1857.

Facsim of ed. published, Ringos, N.J. , C.W. Larison, 1883.

Facsim of ed. published: Boston : H. Jacobs, 1861.

"The history of Mary Prince", originally edited by Thomas Pringle "Memoir of old Elizabeth" and "The story of Mattie J. Jackson", written and arranged by L.S. Thompson ... etc.

Spine title: Wonderful adventures.
Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Blackwood, 1857.

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) A Note on the Texts
2. (p2) POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL (As originally appeared in 1773 edition published by A. Bell, London)
2.1. (p3) To Maecenas
2.2. (p4) On Virtue
2.3. (p5) To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
2.4. (p6) To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1768
2.5. (p7) On Being Brought from Africa to America
2.6. (p8) On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769
2.7. (p9) On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
2.8. (p10) On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
2.9. (p11) On the Death of a Young Gentleman
2.10. (p12) To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
2.11. (p13) Goliath of Gath
2.12. (p14) Thoughts on the Works of Providence
2.13. (p15) To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
2.14. (p16) To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady
2.15. (p17) An Hymn to the Morning
2.16. (p18) An Hymn to the Evening
2.17. (p19) Isaiah LXIII. 1-8
2.18. (p20) On Recollection
2.19. (p21) On Imagination
2.20. (p22) A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. an Infant of Twelve Months
2.21. (p23) To Captain H-d, of the 65th Regiment
2.22. (p24) To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, and c
2.23. (p25) Ode to Neptune. On Mrs. W-'s Voyage to England
2.24. (p26) To a Lady on Her Coming to North America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health
2.25. (p27) To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina
2.26. (p28) To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother
2.27. (p29) To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year
2.28. (p30) On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771
2.29. (p31) To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of His Health
2.30. (p32) To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in Which That Duty Is Recommended and Assisted
2.31. (p33) On the Death of J. C. an Infant
2.32. (p34) An Hymn to Humanity. To S. P. G. Esq
2.33. (p35) To the Honourable T. H. Esq; on the Death of His Daughter
2.34. (p36) Niobe in Distress for Her Children Slain by Apollo, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. And from a View of the Painting of Mr. Richard Wilson
2.35. (p37) To S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
2.36. (p38) To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773
2.37. (p39) A Farewel to America. To Mrs. S. W
2.38. (p40) A Rebus, by I. B
2.39. (p41) An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems
3. (p42) EXTANT POEMS NOT INCLUDED IN THE 1773 POEMS
3.1. (p43) Atheism
3.2. (p44) An Address to the Deist
3.3. (p45) On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin
3.4. (p46) America
3.5. (p47) To the Honble. Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter
3.6. (p48) On Friendship
3.7. (p49) On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd by Richardson
3.8. (p50) An Elegy to Miss Mary Moorhead, On the Death of Her Father, the Rev. Mr. John Moorhead
3.9. (p51) To a Gentleman of the Navy
3.10. (p52) The Answer [By the Gentleman of the Navy]
3.11. (p53) Phillis's Reply to the Answer
3.12. (p54) To His Excellency General Washington
3.13. (p55) On the Capture of General Lee
3.14. (p56) On the Death of General Wooster
3.15. (p57) To Mr. and Mrs.-, on the Death of Their Infant Son
3.16. (p58) An Elegy Sacred to the Memory of That Great Divine, the Reverend and Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper
3.17. (p59) Liberty and Peace
3.18. (p60) An Elegy on Leaving
4. (p61) PROSE
4.1. (p62) Letters
4.1.1. (p63) To the Rt. Hon'ble the Countess of Huntingdon (October 25, 1770)
4.1.2. (p64) Madam [to Abigail May?] (November or December 1771)
4.1.3. (p65) Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (April 21, 1772)
4.1.4. (p66) To Abour Tanner, in Newport (May 19, 1772)
4.1.5. (p67) To Arbour Tanner, in Newport (July 19, 1772)
4.1.6. (p68) My Lord [Earl of Dartmouth] (October 10, 1772)
4.1.7. (p69) Madam [the Countess of Huntingdon] (June 27, 1773)
4.1.8. (p70) Madam [the Countess of Huntingdon] (July 17, 1773)
4.1.9. (p71) Sir [David Wooster] (October 18, 1773)
4.1.10. (p72) To Obour Tanner, in New Port (October 30, 1773)
4.1.11. (p73) Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (December 1, 1773)
4.1.12. (p74) To the Rev. Samuel Hopkins] (February 9, 1774)
4.1.13. (p75) Reverend and Honoured Sir [To Samson Occom] (February 11, 1774)
4.1.14. (p76) To Miss Obour Tanner, Newport (March 21, 1774)
4.1.15. (p77) Much Honoured Sir [John Thornton] (March 29, 1774)
4.1.16. (p78) To Miss Obour Tanner, New Port, Rhode Island (May 6, 1774)
4.1.17. (p79) Rev'd Sir [Samuel Hopkins] (May 6, 1774)
4.1.18. (p80) Much Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (October 30, 1774)
4.1.19. (p81) Sir [George Washington] (October 26, 1775)
4.1.20. (p82) Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (May 29, 1778)
4.1.21. (p83) Madam [Mary Wooster] (July 15, 1778)
4.1.22. (p84) Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (May 10, 1779)
4.2. (p85) Proposals for Volumes
4.2.1. (p86) Proposals for Printing by Subscription (February 29, 1772)
4.2.2. (p87) Proposals (October 30, 1779)
4.2.3. (p88) Wheatley's Final Proposal (September 1784)
4.3. (p89) Prayer: Sabbath-June 13, 1779
5. (p90) VARIANT POEMS AND LETTERS
5.1. (p91) Poems
5.1.1. (p92) To the University of Cambridge, Wrote in 1767
5.1.2. (p93) On Atheism [Variant I]
5.1.3. (p94) On Atheism [Variant II]
5.1.4. (p95) Deism
5.1.5. (p96) To the King's Most Excellent Majesty on His Repealing the American Stamp Act
5.1.6. (p97) On the Death of the Rev'd Dr. Sewall, 1769
5.1.7. (p98) To Mrs. Leonard, on the Death of Her Husband
5.1.8. (p99) An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of George Whitefield [Variant I]
5.1.9. (p100) An Ode of Verses on the Much-Lamented Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield [Variant II]
5.1.10. (p101) On the Death of Doctor Samuel Marshall
5.1.11. (p102) Recollection, to Miss A-, M-
5.1.12. (p103) To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the Death of His Lady
5.1.13. (p104) To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; On the Death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard
5.1.14. (p105) To the Right Honourable William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth
5.1.15. (p106) To the Empire of America, Beneath the Western Hemisphere. Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W. [Variant I]
5.1.16. (p107) Farewell to America [Variant II]
5.1.17. (p108) An Elegy Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. d Samuel Cooper, D. D
5.1.18. (p109) On the Death of J. C. an Infant
5.2. (p110) Letters
6. (p113) PHILLIS WHEATLEY'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN HER POETRY AND PROSE by John C. Shields
7. (p114) NOTES
7.1. (p115) Abbreviations
7.2. (p116) Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
7.3. (p117) Extant Poems Not Included in the 1773 Poems
7.4. (p118) Prose
7.4.1. (p119) Letters
7.4.2. (p120) Proposals for Volumes
7.4.3. (p121) Prayer
7.5. (p122) Variant Poems and Letters
7.5.1. (p123) Poems
7.5.2. (p124) Letters
7.6. (p125) Phillis Wheatley's Struggle for Freedom in Her Poetry and Prose
8. (p126) CHRONOLOGY

theme: English poetry; United States

subject: African American families; African American women

topic: African American families; African American women

Bookmarks:
1. (p5) CHAPTER I The Hazelet Home
2. (p6) CHAPTER II Flora at Home
3. (p7) CHAPTER III Rcth Rudd
4. (p8) CHAPTER IV Flora's First Sunday
5. (p9) CHATTEP V The Beginning
6. (p10) CHAPTER VI Some Results
7. (p11) CHAPTER VII A Visit to Major Joe
8. (p12) CHAPTER VIII More Results
9. (p13) CHAPTER IX Ruth's New Home
10. (p14) CHAPTER X Lottie Piper
11. (p15) CHAPTER XI Changes
12. (p16) CHAPTER XII Led Away
13. (p17) CHAPTER XIII In the Hospital and Out Again
14. (p18) CHAPTER XIV A Chapter op Wonders
15. (p19) CHAPTER XV Going Home
16. (p20) CHAPTER XVI Lottie's Trials
17. (p21) CHAPTER XVII More Surprises
18. (p22) CHAPTER XVIII A Christmas Invitation
19. (p23) CHAPTER XIX A Homely Wedding

theme: African American families; African American women

xxxiv, xii, 200 pages : 17 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Blackwood, 1857
I. My birth and parentage -- Early tastes and travels -- Marriage, and widowhood -- II. Struggles for life -- The cholera in Jamaica -- I leave Kingston for the Isthmus of Panama -- Chagres, Navy Bay, and Gatun -- Life in Panama -- Up to the River Chagres to Gorgona and Cruces -- III. My reception at the Independent Hotel -- A Cruces table d'Hôte -- Life in Cruces -- Amusements of the crowds -- A novel four-post bed -- IV. An unwelcome visitor in Cruces -- The cholera -- Success of the yellow doctress -- Fearful scene at the mule-owner's -- The burying parties -- The cholera attacks me -- V. American sympathy -- I take an hotel in Cruces -- My customers -- Lola Montes -- Miss Hayes and the bishop -- Gambling in Cruces -- Quarrels amongst the travelers -- New Granadian military -- The thieves of Cruces -- A narrow escape -- VI. Migration to Gorgona -- Farewell dinners and speeches -- A building speculation -- Life in Gorgona -- Sympathy with American slaves -- Dr. Casey in trouble -- Floods and fires -- Yankees independence and freedom -- VII. The yellow fever in Jamaica -- My experience of death-bed scenes -- I leave again for Navy Bay, and open a store there -- I am attacked with the gold fever, and start for Escribanos -- Life in the interior of the Republic of New Granada -- A revolutionary conspiracy on a small scale -- The dinner delicacies of Escribanos -- Journey up the Palmilla River -- A few words on the present aspect of affairs on the Isthmus of Panama -- VIII. I long to join the British Army before Sebastopol -- My wanderings about London for that purpose -- How I failed -- Establishment of the firm of 'day and Martin' -- I embark for Turkey -- IX. Voyage to Constantinople -- Malta -- Gibraltar -- Constantinople, and what I thought of it -- Visit to Scutari hospital -- Miss Nightingale -- X. "Jew Johnny" -- I start for Balaclava -- Kindness of my old friends -- On board the "Medora" -- My life on shore -- The sick wharf -- XI. Alarms in the harbour -- Getting the stores on shore -- Robbery by night and day -- The predatory tribes of Balaclava -- Activity of the authorities -- We obtain leave to erect our store, and fix upon Spring Hill as its site -- The Turkish Pacha -- The flood -- Our carpenters -- I become an English schoolmistress abroad -- XII. The British Hotel -- Domestic difficulties -- Our enemies -- The Russian Rats -- Adventures in search of a cat -- Light-fingered Zouaves -- Crimean thieves -- Powdering a horse -- XIII. My work in the Crimea -- XIV. My customers at the British hotel -- XV. My first glimpse of war -- Advance of my Turkish friends on Kamara -- Visitors to the camp -- Miss Nightingale -- Mons. Soyer and the cholera -- Summer in the Crimea -- "Thirsty souls" -- Death busy in the trenches -- XVI. Under fire on the fatal 18th of June -- Before the Redan -- At the cemetery -- The Armistice -- Deaths at head-quarters -- Depression in the camp -- Plenty in the Crimea -- The plague of flies -- Under fire at the Battle of the Tchernaya- Work on the field -- My patients -- XVII. Inside Sebastopol -- The last bombardment of Sebastopol -- On Cathcart's hill -- Rumours in the camp -- The attack on the Malakhoff -- The old work again -- A Sunday excursion -- Inside "our" city -- I am taken for a spy, and thereat lose my temper -- I visit the Redan, etc. -- My share of the plunder -- XVIII. Holiday in the camp -- A new enemy, time -- Amusements in the Crimea -- My share in them -- Dinner at Spring Hill -- At the race -- Christmas Day in the British hotel -- New Year's day in the hospital -- Chapter XIX. New Year in the Crimea -- Good news -- The armistice -- Barter with the Russians -- War and peace -- Tidings of peace -- Excursions into the interior of the Crimea -- To Simpheropol, Baktchiserai, etc. -- The troops begin to leave the Crimea -- Friends' farewells -- The cemeteries -- We remove from Spring Hill to Balaclava -- Alarming sacrifice of our stock -- A last glimpse of Sebastopol -- Home! -- Conclusion

The writings of Afro-American women in the 19th century have remained buried in obscurity, accessible only in research libraries or in expensive and hard-to-find reprints. Many of these books have never been reprinted at in some instances only one or two copies are extant.
Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg Library, is publishing thirty volumes of these compelling and rare works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, essays, and journalism. Each volume contains an introduction written by an expert in the field, including such
well-known scholars as Mary Helen Washington, Hazel Carby, Deborah McDowell, Valerie Smith, Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Frances Foster; together, this important new collection will make accessible for the first time the entire range of works written by black women between 1773 and 1910.
The series includes never-before-published reprinted texts, such as The Hazely Family , as well as Clarence and Corrine , Ann Plato's Essays , Phillis Wheatley's Collected Works , Emma Dunham Kelley's pioneering novel, Megda , Pauline Hopkins's three serialized novels, and Frances E. W. Harper's
Complete Poems (never before collected). It also presents a newly discovered novel, Four Girls at Cottage City by Emma Dunham Kelley, as well as the first American edition of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands .

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North.
Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflinching portrayal of the abuses and hypocrisy of the master-slave relationship. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like "garret" attached to her grandmother's porch.
A rare firsthand account of a courageous woman's determination and endurance, this inspirational story also represents a valuable historical record of the continuing battle for freedom and the preservation of family.

Considered one of the original texts foretelling the Black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of Black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading Black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age during a conservative wave in the Black community, a time when men completely dominated African-American intellectual and political ideas. In these essays, Cooper criticizes Black men for securing higher education for themselves through the ministry, while erecting roadblocks to deny women access to those same opportunities, and denounces the elitism and provinciality of the White women's movement. Passionately committed to women's independence, Cooper espoused higher education as the essential key to ending women's physical, emotional, and economic dependence on men

<p><br><i>wonderful Adventures Of Mrs Seacole In Many Lands</i> Is The Autobiography Of Mary Seacole, A Jamaican Nurse Who, Like&#160;her Contemporary Florence Nightingale, Rose To Fame For Her Bravery&#160;during The Crimean War. Unlike Nightingale, However, Seacole&#160;was&#160;confronted By&#160;racism At Every Turn Of Her Career.&#160;refused A Post In Crimea Because She Was Biracial, Seacole Traveled To The Front On Her Own, Where She Set Up Her Own Clinic For Wounded British Soldiers.&#160;told With Energy, Warmth, And Humor, Her Remarkable Life Story&#160;offer Significant Insights Into The History Of Nursing And Race Politics.</p>

Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica of the early 19th century. In her long and varied life, she was to travel in Central America, Russia and Europe, find work as a inn-keeper and as a doctress during the Crimean War, and become a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain. As this autobiography shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as a ripe taste for sarcasm. Frequently we see her joyfully rise to mock the limitations artificially imposed on her as a black woman. She emerges from her writings as an individual with a most un-Victorian zest for travel, adventure and independence.

Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war

Mrs Seacole, a free-born Jamaican daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black woman, recounts her childhood, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield `doctress' to British troops in the Crimea.

Contents: The history of Mary Prince
Memoir of old Elizabeth
The story of Mattie J. Jackson.

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