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1836 Journal of African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Six Months...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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1836 Journal of African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Traveling...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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1836 Journal of African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Traveling...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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1836 Journal of African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Camp...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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1836 Journal of African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Off to Ohio
Jarena Lee was the first woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (1825-1911) writes of 1835-48 Mill Girls at...
Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (1825-1911) was born in Boston, one of 4 children of William and Harriet Hanson. When she was six years old, her father died. To support the children, her mother moved to...
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1824 James Fenimore Cooper expresses Surprise at Literary Knowledge of Young...
From James Fenimore Cooper, Notions of the AmericansUpstate New York. 1824. Literary Knowledge of American Women.I found an intelligence that surprised me at every turn, and which, in itself, gave the...
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19C Women & Shakespeare
From A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James ShapiroDuring the 19th century, educated women in America became involved in popularizing Shakespeare, as teachers and story-tellers or as...
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Photo Archives - African American Women & the Language of the Fan
Apparently, during the Victorian era, fans had a language of their own.Alvan S. Harper (1847-1911) Tallahassee c 1884 State Library and Archives of Florida1 The fan placed near the heart: “You have won...
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Photo Archives - 19C African American Women
Slave of the Minor Family, Amherst, Virginia
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Photo Archives - African American Women at Work & School in the 1890s
These photos come from the Library of Congress collection of African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition. They are part of the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog of the...
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Photo Archives of Sisters in 19th-Century America
Littleton, New HampshireLa Crosse, WisconsinNew HampshireNew Hampshire
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Photo Archives - African American Women from the 1890s Albums of WEB Dubois
These photos come from Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Du Bois' albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia were exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in...
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