Silvia Dubois, A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

In an extended interview in 1883 Silvia Dubois, then nearly 100 years old, told her life story to Dr. Larison. This edition preserves Larison's idiosyncratic phonetic spelling, with annotations. Contains The Complete Works Of The First African-american To Publish A Book Of Poetry. Poems On Various Subjects, Religious And Moral. To Maecenas -- On Virtue -- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-england -- To The King's Most Excellent Majesty 1768 -- On Being Brought From Africa To America -- On The Death Of The Rev. Dr. Sewell 1769 -- On The Death Of The Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770 -- On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years Of Age -- On The Death Of A Young Gentleman -- To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband -- Goliath Of Gath -- Thoughts On The Works Of Providence -- To A Lady On The Death Of Three Relations -- To A Clerygman On The Death Of His Lady -- An Hymn To The Morning -- An Hymn To The Evening -- Isaiah Lxiii. 1-8 -- On Recollection -- On Imagination -- A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C.e. An Infant Of Twelve Months -- To Captain H---d, Of The 65th Regiment -- To The Right Honourable William, Earl Of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary Of State For North America -- Ode To Neptune. On Mrs. W---'s Voyage To England -- To A Lady On Her Coming To North America With Her Son, For The Recovery Of Her Health -- To A Lady On Her Remarkable Preservation In An Hurricane In North-carolina -- To A Lady And Her Children, On The Death Of Her Son And Their Brother -- To A Gentleman And Lady On The Death Of The Lady's Brother And Sister, And A Child Of The Name Avis, Aged One Year -- On The Death Of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771-- To A Gentleman On His Voyage To Great-britain For The Recovery Of His Health -- To The Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory On Reading His Sermons On Daily Devotion, In Which That Duty Is Recommended And Assisted -- On The Death Of J.c. An Infant -- An Hymn To Humanity. To S.p.g. Esq. -- To The Honourable T.h. Esq; On The Death Of His Daughter -- Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Vi. And From A View Of The Painting Of Mr. Richard Wilson -- To S.m. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works -- To His Honour The Lieutenant-governor, On The Death Of His Lady. March 24, 1773 -- A Farewel To America. To Mrs. S.w. -- A Rebus, By I.b. -- An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems. Extant Poems Not Included In The 1773 Poems. Atheism -- An Address To The Deist -- On Messrs. Hussey And Coffin -- America -- To The Honble. Commodore Hood On His Pardoning A Deserter -- On Friendship -- On The Death Of Mr. Snider Murder'd By Richardson -- An Elegy To Miss Mary Moorhead, On The Death Of Her Father, The Rev. Mr. John Moorhead -- To A Gentleman Of The Navy -- The Answer [by The Gentleman Of The Navy] -- Phillis's Reply To The Answer -- To His Excellency General Washington -- On The Capture Of General Lee -- On The Death Of General Wooster -- To Mr. And Mrs. --- On The Death Of Their Infant Son -- An Elegy Sacred To The Memory Of That Great Divine, The Reverend And Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper -- Liberty And Peace -- An Elegy On Leaving --- Prose. Letters. To The Rt. Hon'ble The Countess Of Huntingdon (october 25, 1770) -- Madam [to Abigail May?] (november Or December 1771) -- Hon'd Sir [john Thornton] (april 21, 1772) -- To Abour Tanner, In Newport (may 19, 1772) -- To Arbour Tanner, In Newport (july 19, 1772) -- My Lord [earl Of Dartmouth] (october 10, 1772) -- Madam [the Countess Of Huntingdon] (june 27, 1773) -- Madam [the Countess Of Huntingdon] (july 17, 1773) -- Sir [david Wooster] (october 18, 1773) -- To Obour Tanner, In New Port (october 30, 1773) -- Hon'd Sir [john Thornton] (december 1, 1773) -- [to The Rev. Samuel Hopkins] (february 9, 1774) -- Reverend And Honoured Sir [to Samson Occom] (february 11, 1774) -- To Miss Obour Tanner, Newport (march 21, 1774) -- Much Honoured Sir [john Thornton] (march 29, 1774) -- To Miss Obour Tanner, New Port, Rhode Island (may 6, 1774) -- Rev'd Sir [samuel Hopkins] (may 6, 1774) -- Much Hon'd Sir [john Thornton] (october 30, 1774) -- Sir [george Washington] (october 26, 1775) -- Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (may 29, 1778) -- Madam [mary Wooster] (july 15, 1778) -- Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (may 10, 1779) -- Proposals For Volumes. Proposals For Printing By Subscription (february 29, 1772) -- Proposals (october 30, 1779) -- Wheatley's Final Proposal (september 1784) -- Prayer : Sabbath -- June 13, 1779. Variant Poems And Letters. Poems. To The University Of Cambridge, Wrote In 1767 -- On Atheism [variant I] -- On Atheism [variant Ii] -- Deism -- To The King's Most Excellent Majesty On His Repealing The American Stamp Act -- On The Death Of The Rev'd Dr. Sewall, 1769 -- To Mrs. Leonard, On The Death Of Her Husband -- An Elegiac Poem, On The Death Of -- George Whitefield [variant I] -- An Ode Of Verses On The Much-lamented Death Of The Rev. Mr. George Whitefield [variant Ii] -- On The Death Of Doctor Samuel Marshall -- Recollection, To Miss A---, M--- -- To The Rev. Mr. Pitkin, On The Death Of His Lady -- To The Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; On The Death Of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard -- To The Right Honourable William Legge, Earl Of Dartmouth -- To The Empire Of America, Beneath The Western Hemisphere. Farewell To America. To Mrs. S.w. [variant I] -- Farewell To America [variant Ii] -- An Elegy Sacred To The Memory Of The Rev'd Samuel Cooper, D.d. -- On The Death Of J.c. An Infant -- Letters. Most Notable Lady [the Countess Of Huntingdon] (october 25, 1770 -- My Lord [dartmouth] (june 3, 1773). Phillis Wheatley's Struggle For Freedom In Her Poetry And Prose / John C. Shields. Edited With An Essay By John C. Shields. Includes Bibliographical References. The writings of Afro-American women in the 19th century have remained buried in obscurity, accessible only in research libraries or in expensive and hard-to-find reprints. Many of these books have never been reprinted at in some instances only one or two copies are extant. Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg Library, is publishing thirty volumes of these compelling and rare works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, essays, and journalism. Each volume contains an introduction written by an expert in the field, including such well-known scholars as Mary Helen Washington, Hazel Carby, Deborah McDowell, Valerie Smith, Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Frances Foster; together, this important new collection will make accessible for the first time the entire range of works written by black women between 1773 and 1910. The series includes never-before-published reprinted texts, such as The Hazely Family , as well as Clarence and Corrine , Ann Plato's Essays , Phillis Wheatley's Collected Works , Emma Dunham Kelley's pioneering novel, Megda , Pauline Hopkins's three serialized novels, and Frances E. W. Harper's Complete Poems (never before collected). It also presents a newly discovered novel, Four Girls at Cottage City by Emma Dunham Kelley, as well as the first American edition of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands . The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North. Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflinching portrayal of the abuses and hypocrisy of the master-slave relationship. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like "garret" attached to her grandmother's porch. A rare firsthand account of a courageous woman's determination and endurance, this inspirational story also represents a valuable historical record of the continuing battle for freedom and the preservation of family. Considered one of the original texts foretelling the Black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of Black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading Black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age during a conservative wave in the Black community, a time when men completely dominated African-American intellectual and political ideas. In these essays, Cooper criticizes Black men for securing higher education for themselves through the ministry, while erecting roadblocks to deny women access to those same opportunities, and denounces the elitism and provinciality of the White women's movement. Passionately committed to women's independence, Cooper espoused higher education as the essential key to ending women's physical, emotional, and economic dependence on men Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war This book may be mostly history or it may be mostly folklore, but it is in any case well worth reading. It is a colloquy an extended interview- with a long foreword by the interviewer and two appendices, one of them mine, and it is the product of a meeting between two 'originals' of the sort that seem to have been commoner in the last century than in this. Mrs Seacole, a free-born Jamaican daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black woman, recounts her childhood, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield `doctress' to British troops in the Crimea. Contents: The history of Mary Prince Memoir of old Elizabeth The story of Mattie J. Jackson.