A Voice from the South: By A Black Woman of the South by Cooper, Anna Julia - 1892

Xenia, OH: The Aldine Printing House, 1892. First Edition. Very Good. Signed. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy from "The Mother of Black Feminism," inscribed by Anna Julia Cooper on the title page, "Harvey Ray, Kind regards of the Author. June 10 1910." [6],304 pp. with frontispiece of the author. Bound in publisher's tan and crimson cloth lettered in gilt; original floral endpapers and gilt topstain. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and with some staining, corners worn, cloth neatly repaired along the lower rear joint, inner hinges expertly mended, pages toned. Very rare in the trade and in institutional holdings, with four physical copies located in a recent OCLC search, only one of which was in the United States.

A colelction of essays by a African American writer, scholar, and educator on a variety of political and religious topics including women's rights, segregation, and the postbellum South. One of the first published works of Black Feminism, called "an unparalleled articulation of black feminist thought" by Henry Louis Gates. Cooper was born a slave, graduated from Oberlin College, was the president of a Black college in Washington, D.C. in her later years, and lived to 105.