The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs. [Caption title}
(Washington): Byron K. Adams, 514 Eighth Street, 1883? Hardcover. 16p. No wrapper apparently as published. 23 cm. Old gray library card binder backed in green tape. Ex lib. (old perforated stamp on title leaf for Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, Ohio). Other library markings and labels removed. The strips of gray binder's tape used to attach first and last leaves to the binder are wide enough to cover outer edges of text. Someone has tried to removed that tape with splitting and other damage to the covered areas. A couple of interior leaves completely detached and all have some chipping along edges and other wear but no loss of text. Inked titling on front cover ("The Black Woman of the South. Alexander Crummell"). There seem to have been three contemporary printings with slightly different pagination. We are not aware of any established priority. OCLC locates 8 copies with 16p and Byron K. Adams identified as Printer. OCLC locates three holdings (Howard, Library of Congress and Princeton) of a 14 page edition published in Cincinnati by the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Finally OCLC locates at least 18 holdings of copies with no publication information and with pagination listed as 14, [2]p. In this pamphlet, Crummell describes and laments the mistreatment, abuse and degradation of African American women. He proposed (without giving any practical way to bring it into being) the creation of a Sisterhood of practical Christian women who would go South into the homes of African American women to help those women learn the habits of thrift, economy, neatness and order. H pleads also for the establishment of at least one large Industrial School in each Southern state for the black girls of the South to develop in those students the practical domestic skills to fit them to fit them to be effective helpers of poor men, the rank and file of black society in the rural South. Crummell believed that the cost to establish these schools would be insignifcant and that such schools would soon be self-supporting. Poor. Item #95379
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