African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA
Title	African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Editor	Dodson, Howard (New York Public Library)
Publisher	Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - The New York Public Library: New York, US (NY)
Language	English
Country (State)	United States of America
Format of data	text/html; image/jpeg
Keywords	African-American literature; women writers; 19th century; America; family; civil war; biography
Description	This is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is keyword-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader.
URL	http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
Contained in	NYPL Digital Library Collections; http://www.nypl.org/digital/index.htm
Archived by	The New York Public Library

CLASSIFICATION
Source Type	Primary Texts
Subject Class	American Literature: Anthologies: Literature on Specific Subjects; American Literature: Literary Criticism: Minorities Literatures: African-American Literature
GOK	IC 473; IC 474; IC 574AfAm; IC 574
BK	18.06; 17.98
LCSH	American literature--Afro-American authors--Web sites. American literature--Women authors--Web sites. American literature--19th century--Web sites. Afro-American women--Literary collections--Web sites.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Access	free; no restriction
Contents	***
Level	popular; undergraduate; graduate; professional

STATISTICS
© SSG-FI	2006-01-24

Metadata: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

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