Women in the 19th Century - Shirley Wilson Logan (Essay Date 1999)
SHIRLEY WILSON LOGAN (ESSAY DATE 1999)
SOURCE: Logan, Shirley Wilson. "Black Women on the Speaker's Platform, 1832-1900." "We are Coming": The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women, pp. 1-22. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
In the following excerpt, Logan provides evidence for the important place that women lecturers held in both the abolitionist and feminist movements.
Our progress depends in the united strength of both men and women—the women alone nor the men alone cannot do the work. We have so fully realized that fact by witnessing the work of our men with the women in the rear. This is indeed the women's era, and we are coming.
—Rosetta Douglass-Sprague, July 20, 1896
Nineteenth-century African American women were full participants in the verbal warfare for human dignity. Describing the women and the times, Rosetta...
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