African American women
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- African American women -- Biography
- African American women -- Conduct of life
- African American women -- Education
- African American women -- Employment
- African American women -- Fiction
- African American women -- Folklore
- African American women -- Health and hygiene
- African American women -- History
- African American women -- Illinois
- African American women -- Intellectual life
- African American women -- Interviews
- African American women -- Juvenile fiction
- African American women -- Maine
- African American women -- Massachusetts
- African American women -- North Carolina
- African American women -- Pennsylvania
- African American women -- Periodicals
- African American women -- Poetry
- African American women -- Political activity
- African American women -- Race identity
- African American women -- Religious life
- African American women -- Social conditions
- African American women -- Societies and clubs
- African American women -- South Carolina
- African American women -- Southern States
- African American women -- Tennessee
- African American women in literature
- Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971
- Jacobs, Phebe Ann, 1785-1850
- Picquet, Louisa, 1828?-
- Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915
- Springer, Maida
- Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883
- Afro-American women
- Women, African American
- Women, Negro
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The Anti-Lynching Crusaders: "A Million Women United to Suppress Lynching" (ca. 1922), by Anti-Lynching Crusaders, contrib. by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust)- Work for the Colored Women of the South (Tuskegee: Normal School Press, 1894), ed. by Margaret James Murray Washington
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The author, 1850; main text as reprinted by Oxford University Press in 1991), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life, Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1855), by Matilda G. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, ed. by Hallie Q. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
- Women of Achievement (Chicago: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, c1919), by Benjamin Brawley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character (Raleigh, NC: L. A. Scruggs, 1893), by L. A. Scruggs, contrib. by Josephine J. Turpin Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gospel Trailblazer: An African-American Preacher's Historic Journey Across Racial Lines (c2003), by Howard O. Jones (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Yevette Richards (page images at Pitt)
- An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist (Chicago: Meyer and Brother, 1893), by Amanda Smith, contrib. by J. M. Thoburn
- From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, ca. 1890), by Lucy A. Delaney
- Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (New York: The author, 1861), by Louisa Picquet and Hiram Mattison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Boston: For the Author, 1875), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Battle Creek, MI: For the author, 1878), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death (Battle Creek, MI: Review and Herald Office, 1884), by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, and Frances W. Titus
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The Author, 1850), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld
- A Nickel and a Prayer (Cleveland: Elli Kani Pub. Co., c1940), by Jane Edna Hunter, contrib. by George Albert Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Deaconess Manual of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1902), by Abraham Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold (Brooklyn: The Author, 1898), by Kate Drumgoold (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Colored Girl Beautiful (Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by E. Azalia Hackley
- African American Females: Addressing Challenges and Nurturing the Future (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, c2013), ed. by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- African American Females: Addressing Challenges and Nurturing the Future (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, c2013), ed. by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Black on the Rainbow (New York: Pageant Press, c1952), by Dorothy Lee Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1931), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (New York: The Macaulay Co., 1929), by Wallace Thurman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Passing (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1929), by Nella Larsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1929), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust)
- Scarlet Sister Mary (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1928), by Julia Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852), by Mary H. Eastman
- Autobiography of a Female Slave (New York: Redfield, 1857), by Martha Griffith Browne (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Four Girls at Cottage City (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1898), by Emma Dunham Kelley
- The House Behind the Cedars (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900), by Charles W. Chesnutt
- Iola Leroy: or, Shadows Uplifted (1893), by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation "Children": or, Holiday-Week on a Louisiana Estate (New York and London: Beadle and Co., c1861), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Megda (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1891), by Emma Dunham Kelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (British printing; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., n.d.), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (multiple formats at crchive.org)
- A Week With the American Slaves (previously published as "Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation Children"; London: Beadle and Co., 1863), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest, by Pauline E. Hopkins (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Comedy, American Style (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1933), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust)
- Quicksand (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1928), by Nella Larsen (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Hazeley Family (Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. Society, c1894), by A. E. Johnson (Gutenberg text)
- Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, by Harriet E. Wilson (Gutenberg text)
- The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel, by W. E. B. Du Bois (Gutenberg text)
- Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1853), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Clotelle (Boston: J. Redpath, 1864), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
- Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
- Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg text)
- Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
- African American Females: Addressing Challenges and Nurturing the Future (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, c2013), ed. by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (multiple formats at archive.org)
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