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"If these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the nation's problem, this Voice by a Black Woman of the South will not have been raised in vain."
Anna Julia Cooper, 1886
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BROKEN UTTERANCES
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Gender, race, and class adversities faced by African American women in the 21st century have not altered drastically from those tackled by our ancestors of the 19th century. Broken Utterances connects the seemingly disparate voices of 20 Black women of the 1800’s, and weaves a cohesive web revealing surprising influences not only upon each other, but also on the experiences of Black
women today. It is an examination of how the unique position of the African American woman provides her with the ability to dissect the ills of society and offer distinctive insight for positive transformation. The book is a multi-media work featuring primary texts, biographies, and original illustrations.
The anthology includes the biographies, illustrations and primary text of the following twenty women:
Maria W. Miller Stewart (1803-1879)
Sarah Mapps-Douglass (1806-1882)
Jarena Lee (1783-Unknown)
Ann Plato (1824-Unknown)
Harriet Tubman (Araminta Ross) (1820-1913)
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) (1797-1883)
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)
Parker Remond (1824-1894)
Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914)
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907)
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)
Fannie Jackson Coppin (1835-1912)
Frances Ann Rollin Whipper (Frank Rollin) (1845-1901)
Frances Barrier Williams (1855-1944)
Gertrude Bustill Mossell (1855-1948)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924)
Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1907)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
Mary Eliza Church Terrell (1863-1954)
Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Thought
Edited and Illustrated by Michelle Diane Wright
Paper, $24.95
Three Sistahs Press, LLC
Anticipated release: Winter 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9769365-1-0
Estimated 327 pages
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© 2006 Three Sistahs Press, LLC
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Editor and Illustrator,
Michelle Diane Wright
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