Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon; Or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life
Author: Louisa Picquet
Publisher:
Published: 1861
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13:
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Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon
Author: H. Mattison
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781396701733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: Or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life Louisa picquet, the subject of the following narrative, was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and is apparently about thirty-three years of age. She is a little above the medium height, easy and graceful in her manners, of fair complexion and rosy cheeks, with dark eyes, a flowing head of hair with no perceptible inclination to curl, and every appearance, at first View, of an accomplished white lady.* N 0 one, not apprised of the fact, would suspect that she had a drop of African blood in her veins indeed, [few will believe it, at first, even when told of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon
Author: H. Mattison
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781469906089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLouisa Picquet, The Octoroon: Or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life [Illustrated Edition] "I WAS born in Columbia, South Carolina. My mother's name was Elizabeth. She was a slave owned by John Randolph, * and was a seamstress in his family. She was fifteen years old when I was born. Mother's mistress had a child only two weeks older than me. Mother's master, Mr. Randolph, was my father. So mother told me. She was forbid to tell who was my father, but I looked so much like Madame Randolph's baby that she got dissatisfied, and mother had to be sold. Then mother and me was sent to Georgia, and sold. I was a baby--don't remember at all, but suppose I was about two months old, may be older." [Illustrated Edition]
Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon Or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life
Author: Louisa Picquet
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09-20
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 9781694486783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSynopsis. The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen". An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends.
The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872
Author: Lyde Cullen Sizer
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-06-19
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0807860980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death. Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor. Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.
Modern Medea
Author: Steven Weisenburger
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-09
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0809069547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe widely acclaimed inquiry into the story that inspired Toni Morrison's "Beloved"--a nuanced portrait of the not-so-genteel Southern culture that perpetuated slavery and had such destructive effects on all who lived with it and in it. 25 illustrations.
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
Author: Audrey Fisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1139827596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies
Author: Camillia Cowling
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0429535805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of ‘mothering’ that took place in Atlantic slave societies. Facing repeated child death, mothering was a site of trauma and grief for many, even as slaveholders romanticized enslaved women’s work in caring for slaveholders' children. Examining a wide range of societies including medieval Spain, Brazil, and New England, and including the work of historians based in Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and Britain, this collection breaks new ground in demonstrating the importance of mothering for the perpetuation of slavery, and the complexity of the experience of motherhood in such circumstances. This pathbreaking collection, on all aspects of the experience, politics, and representations of motherhood under Atlantic slavery, analyses societies across the Atlantic world, and will be of interest to those studying the history of slavery as well as those studying mothering throughout history. This book comprises two special issues, originally published in Slavery & Abolition and Women’s History Review.
Radicals, Volume 2
Author: Meredith Stabel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2021-06-02
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1609387694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmily Dickinson on sex, desire, and “the chapter . . . in the night.” Emma Goldman against the tyranny of marriage. Ida B. Wells against lynching. Anna Julia Cooper on Black American womanhood. Frances Willard on riding a bicycle. Perhaps the first of its kind, Radicals is a two-volume collection of writings by American women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with special attention paid to the voices of Black, Indigenous, and Asian American women. In Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory, selections span from early works like Sarah Mapps Douglass’s anti-slavery appeal “A Mother’s Love” (1832) and Maria W. Stewart’s “Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall” (1833), to Zitkala-Sa’s memories in “The Land of Red Apples” (1921) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s moving final essay “The Right to Die” (1935). In between, readers will discover a whole host of vibrant and challenging lesser-known texts that are rarely collected today. Some, indeed, have been out of print for more than a century. Unique among anthologies of American literature, Radicals undoes such silences by collecting the underrepresented, the uncategorizable, the unbowed—powerful writings by American women of genius and audacity who looked toward, and wrote toward, what Charlotte Perkins Gilman called “a lifted world.”
Harriet Tubman
Author: Catherine Clinton
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2004-02-02
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0759509778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" (Newsday). Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader of the Harper's Ferry slave uprising, she was General Tubman. For the many slaves she led north to freedom, she was Moses. To the slaveholders who sought her capture, she was a thief and a trickster. To abolitionists, she was a prophet. Now, in a biography widely praised for its impeccable research and its compelling narrative, Harriet Tubman is revealed for the first time as a singular and complex character, a woman who defied simple categorization. "A thrilling reading experience. It expands outward from Tubman's individual story to give a sweeping, historical vision of slavery." --NPR's Fresh Air
