Maria W. Stewart (eBook, ePUB)

Essential Writings of a 19th Century Black Abolitionist
Redaktion: Jones, Douglas A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Maria W. Stewart: Essential Writings of a 19th-Century Black Abolitionist offers the most comprehensive and contextually dynamic collection of Stewart's fascinating corpus to date. This important volume brings together all of Stewart's known essays, lectures, and fiction, including recently discovered texts, and its extended introduction and detailed notes situate Stewart's political philosophy in the rich intellectual contexts within which she worked, including abolitionism, black nationalism, feminism, and sentimentalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197612989
• Artikelnr.: 72259589

Autorenporträt

Douglas A. Jones is Associate Professor of English, Theater Studies, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature before Emancipation.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Introduction
* Part One: Gender Theory
* Contextual Works
* 1. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV
* 2. Angelina Grimké, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
(selections)
* 3. Louisa Piquet and Hiram Mattison, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon,
or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (selections)
* 4. Alexander Crummell, "The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects
and Her Needs"
* 5. Anna Julia Cooper, "Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration
and Progress of a Race"
* Stewart's Works
* 6. "Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall"
* 7. "An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female
Intelligence Society of Boston"
* 8. "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of
Boston"
* Part Two: Racial Ethics
* Contextual Works
* 9. David Walker, Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together with a
Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular,
and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America
(selections)
* 10. "Zillah" (Sarah Mapps Douglass) writings published in The
Liberator
* 11. Hosea Easton A Treatise On the Intellectual Character, and Civil
and Political Condition of the Colored People of the U. States; And
the Prejudice Exercised Towards Them; With A Sermon on the Duty of
the Church To Them (selections)
* 12. Selections from Mary Ann Shadd Cary
* Stewart's Works
* 13. "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality"
* 14. "Cause for Encouragement"
* 15. "An Address Delivered at The African Masonic Hall"
* 16. "The Proper Training of Children"
* Part Three: Literary Productions
* Contextual Works
* 17. Jarena Lee, The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee
(selections)
* 18. William J. Wilson ("Ethiop"), "From Our Brooklyn Correspondent"
* 19. Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper), "Two Offers" and "Aunt Chloe's
Politics"
* 20. Charlotte Forten, "Life on the Sea Islands"
* Stewart's Works
* 21. Meditation VI
* 22. "The Negro's Complaint"
* 23. "The First Stage of Life"
* 24. "Sufferings During the War"
* Index