"From Motives of Delicacy": Sexuality and Morality in the Narratives of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Jacobs

Scenes of subjection: terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America

Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 1.4K citations

Humanities, History, Self +11

Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South

Elizabeth Fox‐Genovese, Deborah Gray White · Journal of the Early Republic · 1986 · 845 citations

Humanities, Gender Studies, History +14

Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

Frances Richardson Keller, Hazel V. Carby · The American Historical Review · 1989 · 581 citations

Humanities, Gender Studies, History +7

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century.

Alexa Benson Henderson, Dorothy Sterling · The Journal of Southern History · 1985 · 350 citations

Humanities, Ethnic Studies, History +17

Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850

Nancy F. Cott · Signs · 1978 · 329 citations

Humanities, History, Sexuality Studies +12