"Doers of the word" : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880), Carla L. Peterson

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index

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"Doers of the word": theorizing African-American women speakers and writers in the antebellum North
"A sign unto this nation": sojourner truth, history, orature, and modernity
"Humble instruments in the hands of God": Maria Stewart, Jarena Lee, and the economy of spiritual narrative
"Coloured tourists": Nancy Prince, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, ethnographic writing, and the question of home
Whatever concerns them, as a race, concerns me": the oratorical careers of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Sarah Parker Remond
"Forced to some experiment": novelization in the writings of Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Seeking the "Writable": Charlotte Forten and the problem of narration
Home/Nation/Institutions: African-American women and the work of Reconstruction (1863-1880)

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