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Books · Jan 1861

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

By Harriet A. Jacobs

Writing as Linda Brent, Harriet Jacobs shows how slavery governed Black women's bodies, motherhood, and family - and how concealment, labor, and authorship became means of survival and testimony.

Women's History
Black Feminism
Race and Gender

1106

Articles · May 1851

Address at the Woman’s Rights Convention, Akron (1851)

By Sojourner Truth

Truth argues through labor, measuring cups and scripture; the differing 1851 and 1863 accounts also expose power over the public voice of Black women.

Black Feminism
Race and Gender
Women's Rights

1107

Books · Jan 1850

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By Sojourner Truth (dictated); Olive Gilbert (transcriber)

This 1850 dictated narrative follows Truth’s escape from slavery in New York, her pursuit of a son illegally sold south, and her efforts to claim authority through religious interpretation and public speech.

Women's History
Black Feminism
Race and Gender

1108

Articles · Jul 1848

Declaration of Sentiments

By Seneca Falls Convention

The 1848 declaration links marriage, wages, voting and sexual morality, while revealing hierarchies that persist within the language of universal rights.

Historical Feminism
Women's Rights
Legal Equality

1109

Articles · Sep 1832

‘Why Sit Ye Here and Die?’ / ‘Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall’: Knowledge, Work and Black Women’s Speech

By Maria W. Miller Stewart

In an 1832 Boston address, Maria W. Stewart uses Christian rhetoric to call Black women and men toward learning and public participation while exposing how racialized labour restricts Black women’s opportunities.

Black Feminism
Historical Feminism
Education Equality

1110

Books · Jan 1792

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft links girls’ education to reason, virtue, sexual morality, and political participation, challenging the social training that makes women’s dependence appear natural.

First Wave Feminism
Education Equality
Legal Equality

1111

Articles · Sep 1791

Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne: Making the Exclusion in Universal Rights Visible

By Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges recasts revolutionary rights language in 1791 to ask why women remain outside citizenship, public speech and legal equality. This reading follows the declaration’s form and its historical limits.

Women's Rights
Citizenship
Political Participation

1112

Articles · Mar 1691

Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz: Learning, the Convent and Women’s Intellectual Authority

By Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

In her 1691 reply to Sor Filotea, Sor Juana uses autobiography, theology and classical learning to defend women’s study. This reading keeps the convent setting, her elite position and the argument’s limits in view.

Historical Feminism
Women's Literature
Education Equality