Online Resources
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WorldCat Identities
WorldCat Identities "have a summary page for every name in WorldCat (currently some 30 million names) including named persons, organizations and fictitious characters." Search and discover books and other materials from all over the world on the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century featured in this guide.
A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry compiled by Arthur A. Schomburg
NYPL Digital Collections
- Memories of childhood's slavery days
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Title page and image of Annie L. Burton. - Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activitiesOriginal format, Sc Rare 920-M (Majors, Monroe A. Noted Negro women)
- Sojourner Truth: God's faithful pilgrimSc B-Truth (Fauset, A. Sojourner Truth)
- Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character
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This resource includes Images from L. A. Scruggs' rare book Women of Distinction (1893) via the New York Public Library's Digital Collections. Researchers will find some of the women featured in the guide.
Databases
Discover more information about the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century by using these databases. Access is available with a New York Public Library card.
Other Notable African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
HathiTrust Digital Library
- A brand plucked from the fire : An autobiographical sketch / Mrs. Julia A. J. Foote.
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- Memories of childhood's slavery days by Annie L. Burton
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- Sparkling gems of race knowledge worth reading : a compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child
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Compiled and arranged by James T. Haley.
Internet Archive
- Biography of an American bondman written by his daughter
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The biography of runaway slave and abolitionist, William Wells Brown (1814-1884), written by his daughter Josephine Brown in 1856. - Memories of Calvary : an Easter sketchby Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (1910)
- My Dear Friend
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Letter to Mr. [William Lloyd] Garrison, dictated by Sojourner Truth and transcribed by C.E. Cochrane (1864) - [Letter to] Best and ever faithfull friend
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Josephine Ruffin writes William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for his letter published in the paper, likening it to a "ray of light" cutting through the gloom of a week of "denunciation and defamation of the friends of the friendless" - Violets And Other Tales by Alice Dunbar NelsonLibriVox recording of Violets And Other Tales by Alice Dunbar Nelson.
Read in English by James K. White