Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1830–1850
- Introduction
- Part I Local Transitions
- Chapter 1 Antebellum Literary Societies, Polite Learning, and Traditions of Modernity
- Chapter 2 “By a Young Lady of Color”
- Chapter 3 The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans
- Chapter 4 Gentility, Resistance, and Nat Turner’s Rebellion in Early African American Poetry
- Part II National Transitions
- Part III Transnational Transitions
- Index
Chapter 2 - “By a Young Lady of Color”
Black Women and the Antislavery Press
from Part I - Local Transitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
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Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1830–1850
- Introduction
- Part I Local Transitions
- Chapter 1 Antebellum Literary Societies, Polite Learning, and Traditions of Modernity
- Chapter 2 “By a Young Lady of Color”
- Chapter 3 The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans
- Chapter 4 Gentility, Resistance, and Nat Turner’s Rebellion in Early African American Poetry
- Part II National Transitions
- Part III Transnational Transitions
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on a community of Black women writers in Philadelphia who contributed essays and poetry to the Liberator newspaper. The Liberator provided a venue for such writings, but Philadelphia’s free Black women also decisively shaped the tone and politics of the nation’s leading abolitionist newspaper.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850 , pp. 40 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021