Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Andrews, William L., 1946-
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| ISBN: | 9780198032410
0198032412
019530263X
9780195302639
9786610481637
6610481636
1429415169
9781429415163
9786612367359
6612367350
160256762X
9781602567627
1282367358
9781282367357
9780195141344
0195141342
9780195141351
0195141350
1280481633
9781280481635
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces in one volume the canon of African American women's fiction and autobiography during the slavery era in U.S. history. Each text in the volume represents a "first." Maria Stewart's Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality (1831) was the first political tract authored by an African American woman. Jarena Lee's Life and Religious Experience (1836) was the first African American woman's spiritual autobiography. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) was the first slave narrative to focus on the experience of a female slave in the United States. Frances E.W. Harper's "The Two Offers" (1859) was the first short story published by an African American woman. Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig (1859) was the first novel written by an African American woman. Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) was the first autobiography authored by an African American woman. Charlotte Forten's "Life on the Sea Islands" (1864) was the first contribution by an African American woman to a major American literary magazine (the Atlantic Monthly). Complemented with an introduction by William L. Andrews, this is the only one-volume collection to gather the most important works of the first great era of African American women's writing
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| Other form: | Print version: Classic African American women's narratives. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195141342 0195141350
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