![]() Zackodnik, this collection makes available many previously inaccessible orations and essays that place the better known feminist statements, also included here, in useful context. Superbly edited and annotated by Teresa C. “ ‘We Must be Up and Doing’ will be of immense value to anyone interested in American literary and cultural history, and it will be an essential book for anyone interested in the history and diversity of African American feminist thought. As Zackodnik ably demonstrates, these women showed a dexterity and flexibility, a nimbleness of vision and thought without compromising conviction or goal, that few others were required to exert.” - Joycelyn Moody, University of Texas at San Antonio I continue to be amazed by the difficult terrain early black feminists had to traverse, and more so by the ground they did cover despite the difficulty. Zackodnik does an excellent job of situating their reform efforts in the appropriate contexts of white women’s abolitionism, black male Protestantism’s religious missions, and US religious revivalism more broadly. “This is a very important book, not least of all for its inclusion of nineteenth-century women preachers named as and among early black feminists. ‘We Must Be Up and Doing’ takes its rightful place in the twenty-first-century renaissance of Black Women’s Studies that bridges dangerous gaps between theory and practice, town and gown, us and them.” - Frances Smith Foster, Emory University ![]() ![]() Zackodnik has chosen judiciously to bring us a volume that is both instructive and interesting. “From a rich but generally unknown tradition of African American women’s political and social writing, Teresa C.
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