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Madge Vertner
Author | : Mattie Griffith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781942885146 |
This edition of Madge Vertner was produced with the assistance of Accessible Archives. Mattie Griffith's pre-Civil War abolitionist novel Madge Vertner is a fictional portrait of American slavery told from the perspective of the young daughter of a wealthy southern slave owner. Originally serialized from 1859 to 1860 in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, a weekly abolitionist newspaper edited by Lydia Maria Child, it has never been published in novel form until now. Madge Vertner not only reveals the brutality and horror of slavery, but also raises many questions of race, gender, and equality that still resonate in American society today.
Going Underground
Author | : Lara Langer Cohen |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2022-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1478024127 |
First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while seeking out versions of the underground that were left behind along the way. Outlining how the underground’s figurative sense first took shape through the associations of literal subterranean spaces with racialized Blackness, she examines a vibrant world of nineteenth-century US subterranean literature that includes Black radical manifestos, anarchist periodicals, sensationalist exposés of the urban underworld, manuals for sex magic, and the initiation rites of secret societies. Cohen finds that the undergrounds in this literature offer sites of political possibility that exceed the familiar framework of resistance, suggesting that nineteenth-century undergrounds can inspire new modes of world-making and world-breaking for a time when this world feels increasingly untenable.
Women and Slavery in America
Author | : Catherine M. Lewis |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1557289581 |
Catherine M. Lewis is professor of history, director of the Museum of History and Holocaust Education, and coordinator of the Public History Program at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of a number of books, including The Changing Face of Public History and Don't Ask What I Shot: How Eisenhower's Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950s America.
The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872
Author | : Lyde Cullen Sizer |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2003-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807860980 |
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death. Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor. Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.
History Quarterly of the Filson Club
Author | : Otto Arthur Rothert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Kentucky |
ISBN | : |
Includes list of members.
Autobiography of a Female Slave
Author | : Martha Griffith Browne |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : African American women |
ISBN | : 9781617033520 |
Representing Rural Women
Author | : Whitney Womack Smith |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498595537 |
Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic spaces, and rural women’s experiences, including Mormon pioneer women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women’s organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women and girls navigate the complex realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their experiences, and challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in this collection consider the ways that rural geography allows freedoms as well as imposes constraints on women’s lives, and explore how cultural representations of rural womanhood both reflect and shape women’s experiences.