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Begley, Louis et al.
(Rockville, MD): Quill and Brush, 1994.
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[Nat Turner] Higginson, T.W.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861.
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Dana, Katharine Floyd.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, regarding Myrtilla Miner's 'The Colored Girls School"
[African-American], [Miner, Myrtilla] Burgess, D.
New York: to Messrs. G & C Merriam, Sept. 22 1852.
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[African-American], [Miner, Myrtilla] Burgess, D.
New York: to Messrs. G & C Merriam, Sept. 22 1852.
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IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS Womanist Prose by Alice Walker
Walker, Alice.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1983).
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Walker, Alice.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1983).
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![Only edition. First book appearance of “To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs” by John Greenleaf Whittier at p. 86-88 . 12mo (7-1/8 x 4-1/2"), [iv], 90pp; medium brown wrappers (sewn) printed in black. Some staining and mild overall use to wrappers; moderate foxing to text pages. About very good. When the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society declined to admit women, sisters Ann Greene Chapman and Maria Weston Chapman with others such as Anne Warren Weston, decided to form their own society. Conscience, rather than custom or propriety, should guide them. The Society asserted, to the discomfort of other Abolitionists, that blacks and whites were equal and invited African Americans to join the BFASS. They circulated petitions, raised monies, and spoke out against slavery with such energy that it was not long before fellow Bostonians began to show their disdain. Husbands experienced a decline in business. Sons were not admitted to Harvard College. Walking down Washington Street, long Boston’s shopping district, Chapman found herself subject to slurs and insults hurled from shop doorways. Yet the women refused to wilt. The BFASS inspired other women to form their own societies in Massachusetts and elsewhere and in Maria Weston Chapman they had a strikingly courageous and stalwart spirit armed with an able pen. Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885), antislavery and women’s rights activist and editor, was a pillar of the BFASS and became William Lloyd Garrison's principal lieutenant. "Firm in her convictions and a formidable opponent to those who disagreed with her, Chapman's leadership and influence in the American abolitionist movement were profound". [WOMEN'S WRITING]. From 1836 to 1838 she edited the BFASS annual report which offered a platform for her opinions as well as providing a conventional account of BFASS activities. Chapman details the activities of the Society through the year: their first quarterly meeting in January where the women gathered “without molestation”; the petition to end slavery in the District of Columbia; transcripts of members’ conversations with escaped slaves and the abuses to which they had been subject; correspondence with other antislavery groups; and, an account of the BFASS intervention on behalf of a young six-year old slave girl brought from Louisiana to keep her mistress company while the family summered in Massachusetts. The BFASS decided to bring suit brought on behalf of the child; since the Massachusetts constitution declared all men free and equal, slavery had no standing. The Massachusetts Supreme Court decided in favor of the Abolitionists. The case, scholar Karen Woods Weierman believes, transformed American slave law. Chapman also takes occasion to discuss the religious establishment and the many hypocrisies she thinks attends it. She scorns the idea that women are lesser beings and suggests “Such harem notions, the relics of barbarous ages, will not be entirely extinguished while slavery exists, for they are only manifestations of its spirit”. Women’s rights, in short, are inextricably bound up with the rights of all. [Whittier] BAL 21698. (Blanck records the report also issued in goldstamped cloth and cloth with a printed label at the front).](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15105.jpg "Only edition. First book appearance of “To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs” by John Greenleaf Whittier at p. 86-88 . 12mo (7-1/8 x 4-1/2\"), [iv], 90pp; medium brown wrappers (sewn) printed in black. Some staining and mild overall use to wrappers; moderate foxing to text pages. About very good. When the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society declined to admit women, sisters Ann Greene Chapman and Maria Weston Chapman with others such as Anne Warren Weston, decided to form their own society. Conscience, rather than custom or propriety, should guide them. The Society asserted, to the discomfort of other Abolitionists, that blacks and whites were equal and invited African Americans to join the BFASS. They circulated petitions, raised monies, and spoke out against slavery with such energy that it was not long before fellow Bostonians began to show their disdain. Husbands experienced a decline in business. Sons were not admitted to Harvard College. Walking down Washington Street, long Boston’s shopping district, Chapman found herself subject to slurs and insults hurled from shop doorways. Yet the women refused to wilt. The BFASS inspired other women to form their own societies in Massachusetts and elsewhere and in Maria Weston Chapman they had a strikingly courageous and stalwart spirit armed with an able pen. Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885), antislavery and women’s rights activist and editor, was a pillar of the BFASS and became William Lloyd Garrison's principal lieutenant. \"Firm in her convictions and a formidable opponent to those who disagreed with her, Chapman's leadership and influence in the American abolitionist movement were profound\". [WOMEN'S WRITING]. From 1836 to 1838 she edited the BFASS annual report which offered a platform for her opinions as well as providing a conventional account of BFASS activities. Chapman details the activities of the Society through the year: their first quarterly meeting in January where the women gathered “without molestation”; the petition to end slavery in the District of Columbia; transcripts of members’ conversations with escaped slaves and the abuses to which they had been subject; correspondence with other antislavery groups; and, an account of the BFASS intervention on behalf of a young six-year old slave girl brought from Louisiana to keep her mistress company while the family summered in Massachusetts. The BFASS decided to bring suit brought on behalf of the child; since the Massachusetts constitution declared all men free and equal, slavery had no standing. The Massachusetts Supreme Court decided in favor of the Abolitionists. The case, scholar Karen Woods Weierman believes, transformed American slave law. Chapman also takes occasion to discuss the religious establishment and the many hypocrisies she thinks attends it. She scorns the idea that women are lesser beings and suggests “Such harem notions, the relics of barbarous ages, will not be entirely extinguished while slavery exists, for they are only manifestations of its spirit”. Women’s rights, in short, are inextricably bound up with the rights of all. [Whittier] BAL 21698. (Blanck records the report also issued in goldstamped cloth and cloth with a printed label at the front).")
[Chapman, Maria W(eston)].
Boston: Published by the Society Isaac Knapp Printer, 1836.
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![First separate edition. "Need" originally appeared in CHOSEN POEMS, OLD AND NEW and was revised for this edition. 8vo, 20pp; lime green paper wrappers (stapled) printed in black. With a Kitchen Table printed postcard (catalogue request) with button pinned to front cover. The button, in black, red and white, reads "WE / CANNOT / LIVE / WITHOUT / OUR LIVES / [female symbol]. Button's pin rusty with consequent rust traces transferred to title page opposite. Generally very good. With a preface by Audre Lorde in which she writes: "This revised version of NEED; A CHORALE FOR BLACK WOMAN VOICES is created for particular use in classes, small community meetings, families, churches, and discussion groups, to open a dialogue between and among Black women and Black men on the subject of violence against women within our communities". She notes that she first wrote the chorale "in 1979 after 12 Black women were killed in the Boston area within four months". Various grassroots groups organized a march behind a banner emblazoned: "WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT OUR LIVES". The Poet opens the chorale: "This woman is Black / so her blood is shed into silence / this woman is Black / so her blood falls to earth / like the droppings of birds / to be washed away with silence and rain". Endmatter includes a list of "Resources for Organizing", "Publications", "Other Titles from Kitchen Table", and "About the Author", a brief profile, with photograph, of Audre Lorde.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/14315.jpg "First separate edition. \"Need\" originally appeared in CHOSEN POEMS, OLD AND NEW and was revised for this edition. 8vo, 20pp; lime green paper wrappers (stapled) printed in black. With a Kitchen Table printed postcard (catalogue request) with button pinned to front cover. The button, in black, red and white, reads \"WE / CANNOT / LIVE / WITHOUT / OUR LIVES / [female symbol]. Button's pin rusty with consequent rust traces transferred to title page opposite. Generally very good. With a preface by Audre Lorde in which she writes: \"This revised version of NEED; A CHORALE FOR BLACK WOMAN VOICES is created for particular use in classes, small community meetings, families, churches, and discussion groups, to open a dialogue between and among Black women and Black men on the subject of violence against women within our communities\". She notes that she first wrote the chorale \"in 1979 after 12 Black women were killed in the Boston area within four months\". Various grassroots groups organized a march behind a banner emblazoned: \"WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT OUR LIVES\". The Poet opens the chorale: \"This woman is Black / so her blood is shed into silence / this woman is Black / so her blood falls to earth / like the droppings of birds / to be washed away with silence and rain\". Endmatter includes a list of \"Resources for Organizing\", \"Publications\", \"Other Titles from Kitchen Table\", and \"About the Author\", a brief profile, with photograph, of Audre Lorde.")
Lorde, Audre.
(Latham, New York): Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, (1990).
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Coleman, Wanda.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996.
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Naylor, Gloria.
New York: The Viking Press, (1982).
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Verdelle, A.J.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, (1995).
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Bambara, Toni Cade.
New York: Random House, (1980).
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Wesley, Valerie Wilson.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998.
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![First edition. Inscribed at a preliminary leaf in ink: "January 11, 1996/Dorothy West/and/best wishes". Small 8vo, 240pp; off-white paper over boards with white linen spine lettered in gold; pictorial dust jacket. Fine. West (1907-1998), novelist, short story writer, journalist and editor, made frequent contributions to the journals of the Harlem Renaissance and as an editor and founder of CHALLENGE and NEW CHALLENGE "she helped to oversee the transition from the Harlem Renaissance to the naturalistic realism of the 1930s" [African American Literature]. Her first novel THE LIVING IS EASY (1948) is a keystone for other African American women writers, and its republication in 1982 reawakened interest in the Dorothy West and her work. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sought out the writer and provided steady encouragement and support throughout the development of the writer's second novel, THE WEDDING. OXFORD GUIDE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, pp. 766-767.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/11307.jpg "First edition. Inscribed at a preliminary leaf in ink: \"January 11, 1996/Dorothy West/and/best wishes\". Small 8vo, 240pp; off-white paper over boards with white linen spine lettered in gold; pictorial dust jacket. Fine. West (1907-1998), novelist, short story writer, journalist and editor, made frequent contributions to the journals of the Harlem Renaissance and as an editor and founder of CHALLENGE and NEW CHALLENGE \"she helped to oversee the transition from the Harlem Renaissance to the naturalistic realism of the 1930s\" [African American Literature]. Her first novel THE LIVING IS EASY (1948) is a keystone for other African American women writers, and its republication in 1982 reawakened interest in the Dorothy West and her work. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sought out the writer and provided steady encouragement and support throughout the development of the writer's second novel, THE WEDDING. OXFORD GUIDE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, pp. 766-767.")
Dove, Rita.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1989).
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SINGING IN THE COMEBACK CHOIR
Campbell, Bebe Moore.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1998).
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Campbell, Bebe Moore.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1998).
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