Lydia Maria Child, "The Quadroons" (1847)

Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" (1881-1886)

Carla C. Peterson, "'Doers of the Word': Theorizing African-American Women Writers in the Antebellum North" in The (Other) American Traditions. Joyce W. Warren, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1993.