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- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Our Raison d’Être
- Part First: Soprano Obligato
- Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race
- The Higher Education of Woman
- “Woman Versus the Indian”
- The Status of Woman in America
- Part Second: Tutti ad Libitum
- Has America a Race Problem; If so, How can it best be Solved?
- The Negro as presented in American Literature
- What Are We Worth?
- The Gain from a Belief
Title and Copyright[edit | edit source]
A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH.
BY
A BLACK WOMAN OF THE SOUTH.
XENIA, OHIO:
THE ALDINE PRINTING HOUSE.
1892.
COPYRIGHT 1892
BY
ANNA JULIA COOPER.
Epigraph and Dedication[edit | edit source]
A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH.
“With regret
I forget
If the song be living yet,
Yet remember, vaguely now,
It was honest, anyhow.”
Bishop Benjamin William Arnett,
With profound regard for his heroic devotion to
God and the Race,
both in Church and in State,—and with sincere esteem for his unselfish espousal of the cause of the Black Woman and of every human interest that lacks a Voice and needs a Defender, this, the primary utterance of my heart and pen,
