4) African American and Abolitionist Literature in the 19th century Flashcards
Who is the first published African American poet and what did they write?
Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
What was the name of the first organized abolitionists?
Quakers
Which state was the first to abolish slavery?
Pennsylvania
Who was free-born Black woman, journalist and public speaker?
Maria W. Stewart
Who did the “Ain’t I a Woman” speech?
Sojourner Truth
Which group of writers also belonged to the Abolitionist movement?
Transcendentalists
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
What did Lydia Maria Child write?
Novels, instruction manuals for housewives
Which book was the first anti-slavery work published as a book and who wrote it?
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child
Hobomok, The Quadroons, An Appeal In Favour of that Class of Americans Called Africans
Name two works where you can find a tragic mulatta characters
The Quadroons, Clotel, or, the President’s Daughter
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects; Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
Who helped Harriet Jacobs to edit and publish Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?
Lydia Maria Child
Which book is considered the first novel published by an African American?
Clotel, or, the President’s Daughter
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
