Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Black women on the speaker's platform, 1832-1900: an overview
  • African origins/American appropriations: Maria Stewart and "Ethiopia rising"
  • "We are all bound up together": Frances Harper's converging communities of interest
  • "Out of their own mouths": Ida Wells and the presence of lynching
  • "Women of a common country, with common interests": Fannie Barrier Williams, Anna Julia Cooper, identification and arrangement
  • "To embalm her memory in song and story": Victoria Earle Matthews and situated sisterhood
  • "Can women do this work?": the discourse of racial uplift
  • Appendixes.