African-American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
These fifty-two published works by black women writers are from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth. The full-text database offers works by late-eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley, late-nineteenth-century essayist and novelist Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Harriet Jacobs, a woman born into slavery who published her memoirs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, in the late nineteenth century. Users can browse by title, author, or type of work (fiction, poetry, biography and autobiography, and essays). Each browse category also contains a keyword search for subjects such as religion, family, and slavery. Brief biographies of the thirty-seven featured writers are available. This site is easy to use and is ideal for learning about African American history, women's history, and nineteenth-century American literature.