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We are Your Sisters:

Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
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Dorothy Sterling
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W. W. Norton & Company, Jul 1, 1997 - Social Science - 539 pages
Reissued in a new trade paperback format and design, "This richly researched, sensitively edited, annotated volume portrays indelibly, in their own words, the lives of American black women before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. . . ". Following a successful run in New York, an acclaimed stage adaptation of this work is touring nationally in 1997. Photos.
  

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Review: We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

User Review  - Darrell - Goodreads

This is a tough book to review fairly, as there is more editing here than writing. The high rating is for the time, effort and care that went into it. Dorothy Sterling makes it obvious right from the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Kelly - Goodreads

I think the content is great but Sterling's input between paragraphs is really frustrating. I wish it were set up better. Read full review

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Contents

SLAVERY TIME i
5
Work
13
Seduction Rape Concubinage
18
Courtship and Family Life
31
Letters from Slave Women
44
Resistance
56
Resettlement
69
FREE WOMEN 18001861
85
Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last
237
View from the North
245
The Schoolmarms
261
FREEDWOMEN
307
New Beginnings
309
Slavery Made Us Tough
331
White Folks Still on Top
344
Washerwomen Maumas Exodusters Jubileers
359

First Freedom 18001831
87
g Daughters of Africa Daughters of America
104
The Antislavery Ladies
119
Women with a Special Mission
150
Teachers and Pupils
180
Black Women and the Impending Crisis
213
THE WAR YEARS
235
Some Old Acquaintances
397
Representative Women and a New Generation
418
FOUR WOMEN
451
Selected Bibliography
499
Acknowledgments
515
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JSTOR: We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century.
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Dorothy Sterling. (New York and London: ww Norton & Company, c. 1984. Pp. xx, 535. ...
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We Are Your Sisters (Main Page)
Dorothy Sterling, Editor. We Are Your Sisters. Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. With a new introduction by Mary Helen Washington ...
www.wwnorton.com/ catalog/ spring97/ weareyour.htm

us in 19th Century Syllabus
Dorothy Sterling, We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, ...
www.swarthmore.edu/ SocSci/ bdorsey1/ 5Asyl.html

Welcome to Blue Heron Arts Center
We Are Your Sisters, Adapted by Stephanie von Hirschberg and Ardelle Striker from We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by Dorothy ...
www.blueheron-nyc.org/ theatrehistory.html

Selected Resources
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Dorothy Sterling, ww Norton, 1997. Written By Herself: Literature Production by ...
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Kimberly Wallace Sanders - Dark Bodies of Discourse: Nineteenth ...
Doers of the Word: African American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880). By Carla Peterson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ american_quarterly/ v051/ 51.3sanders.html

Mary Jane Patterson Biography
... by Dorothy Sterling in We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Patterson graduated with a ba degree and highest honors in 1862. ...
biography.jrank.org/ pages/ 2871/ Patterson-Mary-Jane.html

FSE Project | Slavery in the us
4 in We are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth-Century. New York: Norton, 1984, 32–43. Sterling, Dorothy, ed. “Seduction, Rape, Concubinage.” Chap. ...
www.brandeis.edu/ projects/ fse/ slavery/ slav-us/ slav-us-bibliography/ slav-us-bib.html

Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK GEND Gender & History 0953 ...
Quote in Dorothy Sterling, ed., We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century (Norton, New York, 1984), p. 255. This collection contains the ...
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: 19 Century African American Writer ...
Educational materials were developed through the Teaching American History in Baltimore City Program, a partnership between the ...
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About the author (1997)

Author Dorothy Sterling was born on November 23, 1913 in Manhattan. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1934. In the 1940's, she worked as a researcher for Life magazine, but left in frustration at a system under which women researchers gave material to men, who wrote the articles. Her first book, Sophie and Her Puppies, was published in 1951. She wrote more than 35 books for both children and adults throughout her lifetime including Freedom Train (1954), Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls (1958), Black Foremothers: Three Lives (1979) and Close to My Heart (2005). She won numerous awards for her work including the 1976 Carter G. Woodson Book Award for The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction. She died on December 1, 2008 at the age of 95.

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