Nine Black Women: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Writers from the United States, Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean

Nine Black Women features the writing of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites, Anne Hart Gilbert, Mary Price, Mary Seacole, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Harriet E. Adams Wilson, Jarena Lee, Nancy Gardner Prince and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, black women who had writing published in the 1800s. Many of them wrote about slavery and promoted abolition, some wrote religious texts that expressed their views, others wrote autobiographies telling of their battle to overcome prejudice and disadvantage.