The Schomburg Library Of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers

Set contains the following books: * Ammons, Elizabeth, ed.: Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920 * Andrews, William, Introduction: Two Biographies by African-American Women * Dean, Sharon, introduction: A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life, by Eliza Potter * Deskins, David, ed: The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith * Guillaume, Bernice F., ed.: The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks * Harris, Trudier, Introduction: The Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett * Herron, Carolivia, ed.: Selected Works of Angelina Ward Grimke * Stewart, Jeffrey, ed: Narrative of Sojourner Truth * Tate, Claudia, ed.: The Works of Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman * Yellin, Jean and Cynthia Bond, eds: The Pen is Ours

Contains primary source material.

Four autobiographical narratives written by African-American women from 1853 to 1902.

These narratives by four famous black woman preachers and evangelists, published between 1835 and 1907, all share a theme that continues to dominate Afro-American literature even today: the power of Christianity to give strength and comfort in the struggle for liberation from caste and gender restrictions.

The forty-six short stories collected in this volume were originally published in The Colored American Magazine or The Crisis between 1900 and 1920. The Introduction to the collection, written by Elizabeth Ammons, explores the role played by the major black magazines of that period and demonstrates how these two magazines provided the largest secular outlets for short fiction by black women at the turn of the century.