Professor Gwendolyn Rosemond’s Sources:

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  • Baumgartner, Kabria.  In Pursuit of Knowledge:  Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America

  • Berry, Daina.  A Black Women’s History of the United States (REVISIONING History)

  • Bland, Keisha n. and Gill, Tiffany M.   To Turn the Whole World Over:  Black Women and Internationalism

  • Breines, Winifred.  The Trouble Between Us:  An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement

  • Clark-Hine, Darlene.  A Shining Thread of Hope:  The History of Black Women in America

  • Cooper, Anna Julia.  A Voice from the South

  • Evans, Stephanie.  Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954:  An Intellectual History

  • Forten Grimke, Charlotte.  The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke

  • Jacobs, Harriet.  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

  • hooks, bell.  Ain’t I z Woman:  Black Women and Feminism

  • Lerner, Gerda.  Black Women in White America:  A Documentary History

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PROF. ROSEMOND

EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS

This list is adapted from the collection, The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers, General Editor Henry Louis Gates, published in 1988 by the Oxford University Press.

POETS

  • Phillis Wheatley

  • Francis E. W. Harper

  • Alice Dunbar Nelson

  • Collected Black Women’s Poetry

FICTION

  • Mrs. A. E. Johnson

  • Octavia V. Rogers Albert

  • Emma Dunham Kelley [-Hawkins]

  • Frances E. W. Harper

  • Pauline E. Hopkins 

NARRATIVES/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

  • Elizabeth Keckley

  • Mary Secole

  • C. W. Larison, M.D.

  • Amanda Smith

  • Spiritual Narratives (Various authors)

  • Six Women’s Slave Narratives (Various authors)

OTHER NON-FICTION

  • Ann Plato

  • Mrs. N. F. Mossell

  • Hallie Q. Brown