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This print bibliography provides titles pertinent to Civil War era African American women authors and their works. The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog . Links to additional digital content are provided when available.
Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century by 
African American Feminisms, 1828-1923 by 
African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936 by 
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by 
All Bound up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Vulture, 1830-1900 by 
Black Sister: Poetry by Black American women, 1746-1980 by 
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings by 
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History by 
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century by 
Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979 by 
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century by 
Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston by 
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by 
A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City by 
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, from Slavery to the Present by 
The Pen Is Ours: A Listing of Writings By and About African-American Women Before 1910 with Secondary Bibliography to the Present by 
Performing Anti-Slavery: Activist Women on Antebellum Stages by 
Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century by 
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States by 
Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 by 
Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists who Changed History by Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present by 
Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery by 
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century by 
Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance by 
Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History by 
Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 by Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist by 
