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Article: Doers of the Word: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880)
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- October 31, 1997
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Doers of the Word: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880)
Doers of the Word is an intelligently written, well-researched, and very useful addition to the growing canon of critical work on nineteenth-century African American women writers. Surveying the works and practices of ten speakers and writers who thought of themselves as social actors and participants in racial uplift, Doers both embeds these activists within the historical contexts in which they were working and writing and analyzes the texts in question in terms of their formalistic qualities of rhetoric, genre, and narration. Doers also makes helpful connections among this diverse group of speakers ...