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A Voice from the South

By a Black Woman of the South

By Anna J. Cooper

A Voice from the South

158 pp., 6 x 9, 3 halftones

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-3331-2
    Published: May 2017
  • E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-5442-1
    Published: May 2017
  • E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-3332-9
    Published: May 2017

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Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era. Born a slave, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper would go on to become the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Cooper became a prominent member of the black community in Washington, D.C., serving as principal at M Street High School, during which time she wrote A Voice from the South. In it, she engages a variety of issues, including women’s rights, racial progress, segregation, and the education of black women. Cooper also discusses a number of authors and their representations of African Americans, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Albion Tourgée, George Washington Cable, William Dean Howells, and Maurice Thompson, reaching the conclusion that an accurate depiction had yet to be written.

A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

About the Author

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858–1964) was born in Raleigh, N.C., and spent her early life as a slave in the home of George Washington Haywood. At age nine she began a formal education intended to train blacks to become educators of former slaves. She received an M.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris–Sorbonne.
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