Item #140946864 A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South. Anna Julia Cooper.
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South

A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South

Xenia, OH: The Aldine Printing House, 1892.

First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan and crimson cloth lettered in gilt; original floral endpapers and gilt topstain. Very Good, recased and lacking the frontis portrait. Boards rubbed and spotted, lightly edge-worn. Contemporary ownership inscription of Black attorney Fountain Peyton to front paste down, contents tanned and with light pencil notations to text.

A collection of essays by a African American writer, scholar, and educator on a variety of political and religious topics including women's rights, segregation, and the postbellum South. One of the first published works of Black Feminism, called "an unparalleled articulation of black feminist thought" by Henry Louis Gates. Cooper was born a slave, graduated from Oberlin College, was the president of a Black college in Washington, D.C. in her later years, and lived to 105. Item #140946864

Price: $16,000

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