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African American Women Abolitionists
This series is a wonderful resource on all African American abolitionists. Not only does it include printed texts of their speeches, pamphlets, and correspondence, but it also provides biographical sketches and other background information you won't find elsewhere.
Ripley, C. Peter et al., eds. The Black Abolitionist Papers. Five volumes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985-1992).
These books survey the role of women abolitionists in general:
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).
John R. McKivigan, ed. Abolitionism and Issues of Race and Gender (New York: Garland, 1999). Another of McKivigan's helpful collections of essays.
Pierson, Michael D. Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Venet, Wendy Hamand. Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991).
These books focus more closely on black women in the movement:
Mitchell, Beverly Eileen Black Abolitionism: A Quest for Human Dignity. (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2005).
Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992).
You have a good selection of books and websites for the lives of several of the individual women discussed in this article:
Harriet Tubman:
Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman, the Road to Freedom (Boston: Little, Brown, 2004).
Humez, Jean McMahon. Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003).
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (New York: Ballantine, 2003).
This website created by the Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, New York is a great resource for primary school students:
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
And Enchanted Learning's webpage of classroom materials on Tubman is also useful:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/tubman/
Take a look, too, at this "Teacher Cyberguide" for eighth graders in Ann Petry's Harriet Tubman:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/tub/tubtg.htm
Sojourner Truth:
Mabee, Carleton, and Susan Mabee Newhouse. Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend (New York: New York University Press, 1993).
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).
This "Women in History" webpage is a good starting point for Internet resources on Sojourner Truth, with excellent links:
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm
Here is the full text of Truth's Narrative:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html
Mary Ann Shadd Cary:
Rhodes, Jane. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).
Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994).
"Women in History" offers a good sketch of Cary:
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cary-mar.htm
Here is a source on Caroline Loguen:
Loguen, Jermain Wesley. The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life (New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968). Reprint of the 1859 edition.
Here is a fine webpage on Caroline and Jermain Loguen, part of the Preservation Association of Central New York's excellent website on the Underground Railroad in that region:
http://www.pacny.net/freedom_trail/Loguen.htm
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper:
The Afro-American Almanac website has a good short biography of Harper:
http://www.toptags.com/aama/bio/women/fharper.htm
Here's a bibliography of Harper's works:
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/harper.html
And you can find selections from Harper's poetry at this University of Toronto website:
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet344.html
The Boston African American National Historic Site website has a good page on Maria Stewart with useful links to other African American activists in the Boston area:
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/mariastewart.htm
While you're at it, don't miss "African-Americans in Antebellum Boston", a web project mounted by a group of Beverly, Massachusetts high school students:
http://www.primaryresearch.org/bh/
Spartacus, the British educational website, has a good page on the American Anti-Slavery Society:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAantislavery.htm
Finally, don't forget to go to American Memory's African American History section to search for materials on Frances E.W. Harper, Shadd, Truth, and the other figures mentioned in this essay:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History
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