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African American Women Abolitionists
The following series is a wonderful resource on all
African American abolitionists. Not only does it include
printed texts of their speeches, pamphlets, and correspondence,
but it also provides biographical sketches and other
background information you won't find elsewhere:
Ripley, C. Peter et al., eds. The Black Abolitionist
Papers. Five volumes. (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1985-1992).
These books survey the role of women abolitionists in
general:
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism:
Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).
John R. McKivigan, ed. Abolitionism and Issues of
Race and Gender (New York: Garland, 1999). Another
of McKivigan's helpful collections of essays.
Pierson, Michael D. Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender
and American Antislavery Politics (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Venet, Wendy Hamand. Neither Ballots nor Bullets:
Women Abolitionists and the Civil War (Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1991).
These books focus more closely on black women in the
movement:
Mitchell, Beverly Eileen. Black Abolitionism: A Quest
for Human Dignity. (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
2005).
Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study
in Activism, 1828-1860 (Knoxville: University of
Tennessee Press, 1992).
You have a good selection of books and websites for
the lives of several of the individual women discussed
in this article:
Harriet Tubman:
Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman, the Road to Freedom
(Boston: Little, Brown, 2004).
Humez, Jean McMahon. Harriet Tubman: The Life and
the Life Stories (Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2003).
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land:
Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (New
York: Ballantine, 2003).
This website created by the Pocantico Hills School in
Sleepy Hollow, New York is a great resource for primary
school students:
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
And Enchanted Learning's webpage of classroom materials
on Tubman is also useful:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/tubman/
Take a look, too, at this "Teacher Cyberguide" for eighth
graders in Ann Petry's Harriet Tubman:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/tub/tubtg.htm
Sojourner Truth:
Mabee, Carleton, and Susan Mabee Newhouse. Sojourner
Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend (New York: New York
University Press, 1993).
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).
This "Women in History" webpage is a good starting point
for Internet resources on Sojourner Truth, with excellent
links:
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm
Here is the full text of Truth's Narrative:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html
Mary Ann Shadd Cary:
Rhodes, Jane. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press
and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1998).
Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy: Politics and
Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994).
"Women in History" offers a good sketch of Cary:
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cary-mar.htm
Caroline Loguen:
Loguen, Jermain Wesley. The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as
a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life
(New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968). Reprint
of the 1859 edition.
Here is a fine webpage on Caroline and Jermain Loguen,
part of the Preservation Association of Central New
York's excellent website on the Underground Railroad
in that region:
http://www.pacny.net/freedom_trail/Loguen.htm
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper:
The Afro-American Almanac website has a good short biography
of Harper:
http://www.toptags.com/aama/bio/women/fharper.htm
Here's a bibliography of Harper's works:
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/harper.html
And you can find selections from Harper's poetry at
this University of Toronto website:
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet344.html
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The Boston African American
National Historic Site website has a good page on Maria
Stewart with useful links to other African American
activists in the Boston area:
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/mariastewart.htm
While you're at it, don't miss "African-Americans in
Antebellum Boston", a web project mounted by a group
of Beverly, Massachusetts high school students:
http://www.primaryresearch.org/bh/
Spartacus, the British educational website, has a good
page on the American Anti-Slavery Society:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAantislavery.htm
Finally, don't forget to go to American Memory's African
American History section to search for materials on
Frances E.W. Harper, Shadd, Truth, and the other figures
mentioned in this essay:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History
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