Product Description: Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day...read more

Product Description: Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker—from the pioneers of black women’s studies comes Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies, the definitive collection of race and gender writings today...read more

Product Description: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet and abolitionist. She joined the American Anti-Slavery Society as a traveling lecturer. Harper was one of the first African American woman writers and her novels increased awareness of the rights of African Americans and women...read more

Product Description: Love and Marriage in Early African America brings together a remarkable range of folk sayings, rhymes, songs, poems, letters, lectures, sermons, short stories, memoirs, and autobiographies. Spanning over 100 years, from the slave era to the New Negro Movement, this extraordinary collection contradicts or nuances established notions that slavery fractured families, devalued sexual morality, distorted gender roles, and set in motion forces that now produce dismal and dangerous domestic situations...read more

A comprehensive collection of African American writers includes contributions from Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and many others. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. The text is that of the 1861 first edition. Contexts includes contemporary responses to Incidents, selections from Jacobs's other published writings, and extracts from her correspondence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A unique one-volume reference work devoted to black American writers offers four hundred biographical profiles of some four hundred figures major and neglected; entries on important works, genres, literary characters, and aspects of black life; and more. UP. (view table of contents)

Presents three novels by the nineteenth-century, African-American, woman writer dealing with social justice, love, and sexuality

An exciting recovery of three classic novels by the best-known African-American woman writer of the nineteenth century offers timeless tales dealing with social justice, love, and sexuality, offering innumerable insights into the lives of African Americans a century ago.

Product Description: Frances Foster's classic study of pre-Civil War American slave autobiography is now issued in an accessible paperback edition. The first book to represent these slave narratives as literary in the complete sense of the word, and the first study to call attention to the significance of gender in the narratives, Witnessing Slavery will be welcomed by both general readers and students of the American south, slavery, the Civil War, and race issues...read more

The poetry, speeches, letters, and selected fiction of a leading nineteenth-century Black femimist writer and activist are accompanied by a biographical and critical study