Megan’s Reviews > The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers > Status Update

Finished "Memoirs: Looking Back." A common thread that interested me in the three preacher memoirs was that when God calls you to preaching and Satan tells you to stop, that you won't be good enough (and human men tell you to stop and thwart you at every opportunity), listen to God. :) The other two memoirs (Lucy Delaney, Ella Sheppard) were also interesting, and I want to read them in their entirety.

Finished "Northern Women and the Post-War South." Edmonia Goodelle Highgate: "I don't believe in world-saving--but I do in self-making."

"Fugitives & Emigrants: Moving West & North." Jennie Carter: "We do not desire equality with them. I hope none of us are so low & so lost to all that is noble as to wish to change places with those slave owners (all Democrats), who before the war raised men & women for the market--selling their own flesh & blood, separating husband & wife, parent & child. No, we never expect to be bad enough to be their equals."