Black Women in White America

Informationen zum Autor Gerda Lerner Klappentext Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past. "A very timely and powerful collection which gives emphasis to the magnificent role of Black women in the struggle of Black people to survive in this, the United States,"-Nathan Irvin Huggins "Gerda Lerner has collected . . . material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks, and possibly even those which we, as Blacks, have of ourselves,"-Maya Angelou Zusammenfassung Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this stunning collection of documents ( Washington Post Book World )! African-American women speak of themselves! their lives! ambitions! and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival! of family and community self-help! of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism! economic hardship! and! far too often! violence. Their vivid accounts! their strong and insistent voices! make for inspiring reading! enriching our understanding of the American past. A very timely and powerful collection which gives emphasis to the magnificent role of Black women in the struggle of Black people to survive in this! the United States!Nathan Irvin Huggins Gerda Lerner has collected . . . material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks! and possibly even those which we! as Blacks! have of ourselves!Maya Angelou Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Notes on Sources An Introduction, by Mary McLeod Bethune 1. SLAVERY Purchase and Sale Bill of Sale of Abraham Van Vleeck (1811) Mrs. Blankenship Wishes to Buy a Slave Girl (1863) Moses Grandy's Wife Is Sold (1844) A Slave Dealer's Sale Receipts (1863) A Mother Is Sold Away from Her Children A Slave Mother Succees in Returning to Her Family (1846) A Slave Shams Illness to Stay with Her Husband (1847) Tell It Like It Was Daily Life of Plantation Slaves The Slaves' Garden Plot (1836) A House Slave's Family Life (1861) A Seamstress Is Punished (1839) The Daily Life of House Slaves (1839) I Wasn't Crying 'Bout Mistress, I Was Crying 'Cause the White Bread Was Gone, Martha Harrison The Struggle for SurvivalDay-to-Day Resistance Sneaking an Education: Memories of a Contraband, Susie King Taylor Foolin' Massa: Memories of a Contraband She Finally Went to School That One Night, Josephine Thomas White A Slave Woman Runs a Midnight School, Milla Granson A Slave Mother in Business Fight, and If You Can't Fight, Kick A Mother Purchases Her Daughter Ransoming a Woman from Slavery (1859) Stephen and Juba (18381839) A Woman's Fate The Way Women Are Treated (1839) The Breeder Woman The Nursing Mothers (1836) A Slaveholder's Wife Listens to Her Slaves (18381839) The Slaveholder's Mistress A Slaveholder Confides to Her Diary The Story of Nancy Weston as Told by Her Son (1868) On the Road to Freedom The Rescue of Jane Johnson (1855) Dramatic Slave Rescues (1855, 1857) The Case of Margaret Garener (1856) The Called Her Moses, Harriet Tubman ...

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Gerda Lerner

Klappentext

Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing.

In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past.

"A very timely and powerful collection which gives emphasis to the magnificent role of Black women in the struggle of Black people to survive in this, the United States,"-Nathan Irvin Huggins

"Gerda Lerner has collected . . . material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks, and possibly even those which we, as Blacks, have of ourselves,"-Maya Angelou

Inhalt
*Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources

An Introduction, by Mary McLeod Bethune

***1. SLAVERY
Purchase and Sale
**Bill of Sale of Abraham Van Vleeck (1811)
Mrs. Blankenship Wishes to Buy a Slave Girl (1863)
Moses Grandy's Wife Is Sold (1844)
A Slave Dealer's Sale Receipts (1863)
A Mother Is Sold Away from Her Children
A Slave Mother Succees in Returning to Her Family (1846)
A Slave Shams Illness to Stay with Her Husband (1847)

**Tell It Like It Was
**Daily Life of Plantation Slaves
The Slaves' Garden Plot (1836)
A House Slave's Family Life (1861)
A Seamstress Is Punished (1839)
The Daily Life of House Slaves (1839)
I Wasn't Crying 'Bout Mistress, I Was Crying 'Cause the White Bread
     Was Gone, Martha Harrison

**The Struggle for Survival—Day-to-Day Resistance
**Sneaking an Education:  Memories of a Contraband, Susie King Taylor
Foolin' Massa: Memories of a Contraband
She Finally Went to School That One Night, Josephine Thomas White
A Slave Woman Runs a Midnight School, Milla Granson
A Slave Mother in Business
Fight, and If You Can't Fight, Kick
A Mother Purchases Her Daughter
Ransoming a Woman from Slavery (1859)
Stephen and Juba (1838–1839)

**A Woman's Fate
**The Way Women Are Treated (1839)
The “Breeder Woman”
The Nursing Mothers (1836)
A Slaveholder's Wife Listens to Her Slaves (1838–1839)
The Slaveholder's Mistress
A Slaveholder Confides to Her Diary
The Story of Nancy Weston as Told by Her Son (1868)

**On the Road to Freedom
**The Rescue of Jane Johnson (1855)
Dramatic Slave Rescues (1855, 1857)
The Case of Margaret Garener (1856)
The Called Her “Moses,” Harriet Tubman (1860)
An Ingenious Escape, Ellen Craft (1848)

**2. THE STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATION
Learning to Teach
**Teaching School to Keep Alive, Maria W. Stewart (1832)
Establishing a Girls' Department in the Institute for Colored Youth,
       Sarah Mapps Douglass (1853)
Teaching to Become an Educator, Fannie Jackson Coppin (1869)
Methods of Instruction, Fannie Jackson Coppin (1913)

**Teaching the Freedmen
**A Teacher from the North, Charlotte Forten Grimké (1863)
A Former Slave Teaches Black Soldiers, Susie King Taylor (1862)
Teachers Wanted (1865)
Reports from the Field (1866–1869)
Administration of Freedman's Schools (1871)
An Example of Teaching Materials Used in Freedmen's Schools in Virginia in (1870)
Catechizing Freedmen Children (1869)
They Would Not Let Us Have Schools (1871)
Schooling in the Jim Crow South, Septima Poinsetta Clark (1916–1928)

**School Founders
**A Progress Report from the Founder of the Haines School, Lucey Loney (1893)
Fund Raising for the Palmer Memorial Institute, Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1920–1921)
The National Training School for Girls Appeals for Funds, Nannie Burroughs  (1929)
A College on a Garbage Dump, Mary McLeod Bethune (1941)
Another “Begging” Letter, Mary McLeod Bethune (1930)
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