Shanice Bowrin has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Ain't I a Woman?.
Women's Cause Is One and Universal
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Anna Julia Cooper’s speech on the progress of African American women since the abolition of slavery was delivered at the World's Congress of Representative Women in Chicago on May 18, 1893. It rejects the injustices arising from "special favoritisms" like gender, race, or condition. It is also an eloquent plea for the triumph of right over might and for the recognition of the oneness of life so that the forces of reason, justice, and love may be established in every government of every nation.
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Ain't I a Woman?
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Ms. Truth opens this speech by saying that black men and women gathering together should strike fear into the general population's hearts - and right she is. She dismisses the idea that women can't get things done and claims that women can change anything if they put their mind to it.
Public Domain (P)2018 Museum Audiobooks
Why Sit Ye Here and Die?
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The abolitionist, essayist, teacher, and women’s rights activist Maria W. Stewart is thought to have been the first African American woman to raise matters of equality and justice in a US public forum, the New England Anti-Slavery Society in Boston. In her 1832 lecture, Why Sit Ye Here and Die?, she demanded equal rights for African American women while criticizing both the slavery of the South and the lack of opportunity and equality in the North. Her biblical style of oratory and fierce opposition to injustice still inspire today.
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An Address at the African Masonic Hall
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In February 1833, the African American orator and abolitionist Maria W. Stewart gave a controversial speech at Boston’s African Masonic Lodge which drew a hostile response from the audience, as she criticized her own people for not standing up for themselves. She accused black men of being indifferent to African rights and liberty, claiming that they “lacked ambition and courage”. The audience’s negative reaction to her inflammatory rhetoric led to Maria’s formal retirement from public speaking at a farewell adddress in September of that year.
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The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman
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After graduating from Atlanta University, Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933) began a lifelong career as an educator and the founder of numerous institutions for the upliftment of freedmen and their children. In 1883 she founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia. She was principal of the Haines Institute for Industrial and Normal Education for 50 years.
Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks